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The word frequency effect in picture naming: Contrasting two hypotheses using homonym pictures
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Sensitivity to detailed acoustic information in word recognition
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56963.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)0ntbrkt;RU Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 06 april 2006Promotor : Cutler, A. Co-promotor : McQueen, J.M.176 p
Prosodic knowledge affects the recognition of newly acquired words
Item does not contain fulltextAn eye-tracking study examined the involvement of prosodic knowledge-specifically, the knowledge that monosyllabic words tend to have longer durations than the first syllables of polysyllabic words-in the recognition of newly learned words. Participants learned new spoken words (by associating them to novel shapes): bisyllables and onset-embedded monosyllabic competitors (e.g., baptoe and bap). In the learning phase, the duration of the ambiguous sequence (e.g., bap) was held constant. In the test phase, its duration was longer than, shorter than, or equal to its learning-phase duration. Listeners' fixations indicated that short syllables tended to be interpreted as the first syllables of the bisyllables, whereas long syllables generated more monosyllabic-word interpretations. Recognition of newly acquired words is influenced by prior prosodic knowledge and is therefore not determined solely on the basis of stored episodes of those words.6 p