Effects of Timing Regularity and Metrical Expectancy on Spoken-Word Perception

Rhythm and meter in spoken-word perception 1 Running head: RHYTHM AND METER IN SPOKEN-WORD PERCEPTION Rhythmic regularity and metrical expectancy in spoken-word perception

Certain types of speech, e.g. lists of words or numbers, are usually spoken with a clear speech rhythm. Salient, stressed vowels are aligned to rhythmic points within the phrase period. The main hypothesis of this study (derived from the Dynamic Attending Theory; M.R. Jones (1976), Psych. Rev. 83, 323–355) is that listeners attend in particular to speech events at these rhythmic time points. Be...

Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence spoken word recognition

Two visual world experiments tested the hypothesis that expectations based on preceding prosody influence the perception of suprasegmental cues to lexical stress. Experiment 1 showed that phonemically overlapping words with different initial stress patterns compete for recognition. Experiment 2 further demonstrated that fundamental frequency and syllable timing patterns across material precedin...

Metrical Structure in Planning the Production of Spoken Words

According to most models of speech production, the planning of spoken words involves the independent retrieval of segments and metrical frames followed by segment-to-frame association. In some models, the metrical frame includes a specification of the number and ordering of consonants and vowels, but in the word-form encoding by activation and verification (WEAVER) model (A. Roelofs, 1997), the...

An ERP correlate of metrical stress in spoken word recognition.

Rhythmic properties of spoken language such as metrical stress, that is, the alternation of strong and weak syllables, are important in speech recognition of stress-timed languages such as Dutch and English. Nineteen subjects listened passively to or discriminated actively between sequences of bisyllabic Dutch words, which started with either a weak or a strong syllable. Weak-initial words, whi...

Running head: METRICAL EXPECTATIONS INFLUENCE WORD RECOGNITION 1 Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence perception of lexical stress Date of resubmission: 9/21/2014 Running head: METRICAL EXPECTATIONS INFLUENCE WORD RECOGNITION 2 Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence perception of lexical stress