Lexical Competition in Spoken Word Recognition

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Vroomen ◽  
B. L. M. F. De Gelder
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Lexical Competition

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Lexical Competition During Spoken Word Recognition

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Magnuson ◽  
James A. Dixon ◽  
Michael K. Tanenhaus ◽  
Richard N. Aslin
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Lexical Competition

scholarly journals Pupillometry reveals cognitive demands of lexical competition during spoken word recognition in young and older adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew J. McLaughlin ◽  
Maggie E. Zink ◽  
Lauren Gaunt ◽  
Brent Spehar ◽  
Kristin J. Van Engen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Lexical Competition ◽  
Cognitive Demands

Discourse fluency modulates spoken word recognition in monolingual and L2 speakers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mona Roxana Botezatu ◽  
Judith F. Kroll ◽  
Morgan Trachsel ◽  
Taomei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Lexical Competition ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Fluent Language

Abstract We investigated whether fluent language production is associated with greater skill in resolving lexical competition during spoken word recognition and ignoring irrelevant information in non-linguistic tasks. Native English monolinguals and native English L2 learners, who varied on measures of discourse/verbal fluency and cognitive control, identified spoken English words from dense (e.g., BAG) and sparse (e.g., BALL) phonological neighborhoods in moderate noise. Participants were slower in recognizing spoken words from denser neighborhoods. The inhibitory effect of phonological neighborhood density was smaller for English monolinguals and L2 learners with higher speech production fluency, but was unrelated to cognitive control as indexed by performance on the Simon task. Converging evidence from within-language effects in monolinguals and cross-language effects in L2 learners suggests that fluent language production involves a competitive selection process that may not engage all domain-general control mechanisms. Results suggest that language experience may capture individual variation in lexical competition resolution.

Grammatical context constrains lexical competition in spoken word recognition

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Strand ◽  
Andrea Simenstad ◽  
Allison Cooperman ◽  
Jonathon Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Lexical Competition

When Words Compete: Levels of Processing in Perception of Spoken Words

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Vitevitch ◽  
Paul A. Luce
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Nonsense Word ◽  
Neighborhood Density ◽  
Inhibitory Effects ◽  
Lexical Competition ◽  
Competitive Effects ◽  
Probabilistic Phonotactics ◽  
Lexical Effects

Current theories of spoken-word recognition posit two levels of representation and process: lexical and sublexical. By manipulating probabilistic phonotactics and similarity-neighborhood density, we attempted to determine if these two levels of representation have dissociable effects on processing. Whereas probabilistic phonotactics have been associated with facilitatory effects on recognition, increases in similarity-neighborhood density typically result in inhibitory effects on recognition arising from lexical competition. Our results demonstrated that when the lexical level is invoked using real words, competitive effects of neighborhood density are observed. However, when strong lexical effects are removed by the use of nonsense word stimuli, facilitatory effects of phonotactics emerge. These results are consistent with a two-level framework of process and representation embodied in certain current models of spoken-word recognition.

scholarly journals Effects of Open-Set and Closed-Set Task Demands on Spoken Word Recognition

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (05) ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia G. Clopper ◽  
David B. Pisoni ◽  
Adam T. Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Speech Discrimination ◽  
Lexical Competition ◽  
Talker Variability ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Response Alternatives

Closed-set tests of spoken word recognition are frequently used in clinical settings to assess the speech discrimination skills of hearing-impaired listeners, particularly children. Speech scientists have reported robust effects of lexical competition and talker variability in open-set tasks but not closed-set tasks, suggesting that closed-set tests of spoken word recognition may not be valid assessments of speech recognition skills. The goal of the current study was to explore some of the task demands that might account for this fundamental difference between open-set and closed-set tasks. In a series of four experiments, we manipulated the number and nature of the response alternatives. Results revealed that as more highly confusable foils were added to the response alternatives, lexical competition and talker variability effects emerged in closed-set tests of spoken word recognition. These results demonstrate a close coupling between task demands and lexical competition effects in lexical access and spoken word recognition processes.

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