{"pk":31693,"title":"Match and Mismatch in Phonological Context","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Earlier research suggests that the lexical access\nprocess in humans is highly intolerant of mismatch.\nWhen heard in isolation, a sequence such as [wikib]\n(wickib) is unacceptable as a token of wicked even\nthough the mismatch is minimal. This observation is\napparently inconsistent with the vulnerability of\nnatural speech to phonological change. For example,\nthe word wicked m a y be phonetically realised as\n[wikib] in the context of \"wicked prank\". This is an\nexample of place assimilation, where the underlying\n/d/ in wicked acquires a labial character from the\nfoUowing labial consonant.\nThe cross-modal priming experiments reported\nhere test the hypothesis that phonologically regular\nvariation does not in fact create mismatch when it\noccurs in the appropriate context. Subjects heard\ntokens like [wikib] embedded in either\nphonologically viable context (where the following\nword was prank) or in unviable context (where the\nfollowing word was game ) . When heard in unviable\ncontext, the distorted tokens produced a strong\nmismatch effect In contrast, the distorted tokens in\nviable context primed as strongly as the undistorted\nwords. These results suggest that the on-line\nprocesses of speech interpretation and lexical access\nmust perform some kind of phonological inferencing\nwhen interpreting speech at the lexical level.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pt3d26h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gareth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gaskell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of London","department":""},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marslen-Wilson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31693/galley/22761/download/"}]}