Accessing the spoken word

Accessing Spoken Words: The Importance of Word Onsets

Approaches to spoken word recognition differ in the importance they assign to word onsets during lexical access. This research contrasted the hypothesis that lexical access is strongly directional with the hypothesis that word onsets are less important than the overall goodness of fit between input and lexical form. A cross-modal priming technique was used to investigate the extent to which a r...

Accessing spoken interaction through dialogue processing

Written language is one of our primary means for documenting our lives, achievements, and environment. Our capabilities to record, store and retrieve audio, still pictures, and video are undergoing a revolution and may support, supplement or even replace written documentation. This technology enables us to record information that would otherwise be lost, lower the cost of documentation and enha...

The power of the spoken word.

The Self-Organization of a Spoken Word

Pronunciation time probability density and hazard functions from large speeded word naming data sets were assessed for empirical patterns consistent with multiplicative and reciprocal feedback dynamics - interaction dominant dynamics. Lognormal and inverse power law distributions are associated with multiplicative and interdependent dynamics in many natural systems. Mixtures of lognormal and in...

Transforming Access to the Spoken Word

For thousands of years, the written word has held a special place in our lives. In part, this results from two key characteristics: durability and searchability. Over the past several decades, the spoken word has gradually acquired those characteristics. In our lifetimes, it seems reasonable to expect that trend to continue, and indeed to accelerate, as improvements in automatic speech recognit...