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Early use of phonetic information in spoken word recognition: Lexical stress drives eye movements immediately
- DOI:
- 10.1080/17470210903104412
pages 772-783
Available online: 17 Aug 2009Abstract
For optimal word recognition listeners should use all relevant acoustic information as soon as it comes available. Using printed-word eye tracking we investigated when during word processing Dutch listeners use suprasegmental lexical stress information to recognize words. Fixations on targets such as “OCtopus” (capitals indicate stress) were more frequent than fixations on segmentally overlapping but differently stressed competitors (“okTOber”) before segmental information could disambiguate the words. Furthermore, prior to segmental disambiguation, initially stressed words were stronger lexical competitors than noninitially stressed words. Listeners recognize words by immediately using all relevant information in the speech signal.
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- Available online: 17 Aug 2009
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- a Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- b Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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