Cognitive Science 35 (1):184-197 (2011)
Abstract |
There is a growing consensus that the mental lexicon contains both abstract and word-specific acoustic information. To investigate their relative importance for word recognition, we tested to what extent perceptual learning is word specific or generalizable to other words. In an exposure phase, participants were divided into two groups; each group was semantically biased to interpret an ambiguous Mandarin tone contour as either tone1 or tone2. In a subsequent test phase, the perception of ambiguous contours was dependent on the exposure phase: Participants who heard ambiguous contours as tone1 during exposure were more likely to perceive ambiguous contours as tone1 than participants who heard ambiguous contours as tone2 during exposure. This learning effect was only slightly larger for previously encountered than for not previously encountered words. The results speak for an architecture with prelexical analysis of phonological categories to achieve both lexical access and episodic storage of exemplars
|
Keywords | Episodic models Speech perception Lexical tone Phonological abstraction Mandarin Chinese |
Categories |
No categories specified (categorize this paper) |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01140.x |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
Shortlist: A Connectionist Model of Continuous Speech Recognition.Dennis Norris - 1994 - Cognition 52 (3):189-234.
Echoes of Echoes? An Episodic Theory of Lexical Access.Stephen D. Goldinger - 1998 - Psychological Review 105 (2):251-279.
Phonological Abstraction in the Mental Lexicon.James M. McQueen, Anne Cutler & Dennis Norris - 2006 - Cognitive Science 30 (6):1113-1126.
Lexical Information Drives Perceptual Learning of Distorted Speech: Evidence From the Comprehension of Noise-Vocoded Sentences.Matthew H. Davis, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Karen Taylor & Carolyn McGettigan - 2005 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 134 (2):222-241.
The Weckud Wetch of the Wast: Lexical Adaptation to a Novel Accent.Jessica Maye, Richard N. Aslin & Michael K. Tanenhaus - 2008 - Cognitive Science 32 (3):543-562.
Citations of this work BETA
Phonological Abstraction Without Phonemes in Speech Perception.Holger Mitterer, Odette Scharenborg & James M. McQueen - 2013 - Cognition 129 (2):356-361.
Perceptual Learning of Intonation Contour Categories in Adults and 9‐ to 11‐Year‐Old Children: Adults Are More Narrow‐Minded.Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Paul Olejarczuk & Melissa A. Redford - 2017 - Cognitive Science 41 (2):383-415.
Similar books and articles
The Effect of Sonority on Word Segmentation: Evidence for the Use of a Phonological Universal.Marc Ettlinger, Amy S. Finn & Carla L. Hudson Kam - 2012 - Cognitive Science 36 (4):655-673.
Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms.Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith & Richard A. Blythe - 2011 - Cognitive Science 35 (3):480-498.
Actively Learning Object Names Across Ambiguous Situations.George Kachergis, Chen Yu & Richard M. Shiffrin - 2013 - Topics in Cognitive Science 5 (1):200-213.
Looking in the Wrong Direction Correlates With More Accurate Word Learning.Stanka A. Fitneva & Morten H. Christiansen - 2011 - Cognitive Science 35 (2):367-380.
Iconic Gestures Prime Words.De-Fu Yap, Wing-Chee So, Ju-Min Melvin Yap, Ying-Quan Tan & Ruo-Li Serene Teoh - 2011 - Cognitive Science 35 (1):171-183.
Which Came First: Infants Learning Language or Motherese?Heather Bortfeld - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):505-506.
Using Reinforcement Learning to Examine Dynamic Attention Allocation During Reading.Yanping Liu, Erik D. Reichle & Ding-Guo Gao - 2013 - Cognitive Science 37 (8):1507-1540.
Merging Information in Speech Recognition: Feedback is Never Necessary.Dennis Norris, James M. McQueen & Anne Cutler - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (3):299-325.
Learning Diphone-Based Segmentation.Robert Daland & Janet B. Pierrehumbert - 2011 - Cognitive Science 35 (1):119-155.
Using Variability to Guide Dimensional Weighting: Associative Mechanisms in Early Word Learning.Keith S. Apfelbaum & Bob McMurray - 2011 - Cognitive Science 35 (6):1105-1138.
Testing the Limits of Long-Distance Learning: Learning Beyond a Three-Segment Window.Sara Finley - 2012 - Cognitive Science 36 (4):740-756.
Adaptation to Novel Accents: Feature-Based Learning of Context-Sensitive Phonological Regularities.Katrin Skoruppa & Sharon Peperkamp - 2011 - Cognitive Science 35 (2):348-366.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2010-10-13
Total views
53 ( #215,972 of 2,519,625 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #406,756 of 2,519,625 )
2010-10-13
Total views
53 ( #215,972 of 2,519,625 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #406,756 of 2,519,625 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads