Using the cross-modal priming paradigm, we attempted to determine whether semantic representations for word-final morphemes embedded in multisyllabic words (e.g.,/lak/in /hemlak/) are independently activated in memory. That is, we attempted to determine whether the auditory prime, /hemlak/, would facilitate lexical decision times to the visual target, KEY, even when the recognition point for /h...

The electroencephalographic (EEG) correlates of degraded speech perception have been explored in a number of recent studies. However, such investigations have often been inconclusive as to whether observed differences in brain responses between conditions result from different acoustic properties of more or less intelligible stimuli or whether they relate to cognitive processes implicated in co...

This paper investigates the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese (EP) through analysis of grammatical and statistical properties of the target language and child speech. The analysis of grammatical properties shows that there are solid cues to the prosodic word (PW) in EP, and the presence of early word-based phonology in child speech shows that EP children are aware of these cu...

Two experiments examined the facilitation that occurs when prime and target words shareinitial phonemes in a shadowing task using 25% of related prime-target pairs and 50 ms ISI.Experiment 1 replicated the results described by Spinelli, Segui and Radeau (2001) showing thatthe processing of bisyllabic target words (coulisse /kulis/) was facilitated by monosyllabic primes(cou /ku/...

PURPOSE Vietnamese children's performance on language-based processing tasks of fast-mapping (FM) word-learning and dynamic assessment (DA) word- and rule-learning tasks were investigated. METHOD Twenty-one first- and second-generation Vietnamese preschool children participated in this study. All children were enrolled in 2 Head Start programs in a large city in the Midwest. All children had ...

BACKGROUND Cochlear implants (CIs) can improve speech recognition for children with severe congenital hearing loss, and open-set word recognition is an important efficacy measure. This study examined Mandarin open-set word recognition development among Chinese children with CIs and normal hearing (NH). METHODS This study included 457 children with CIs and 131 children with NH, who completed t...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to establish the developmental trajectories for children's open-set recognition of monosyllabic words in each of two maskers: two-talker speech and speech-shaped noise. DESIGN Listeners were 56 children (5 to 16 years) and 16 adults, all with normal hearing. Thresholds for 50% correct recognition of monosyllabic words were measured in a two-talker speech o...

Xiamen12 is a Southern Min language that exhibits a complex system of tone sandhi: the tone that is associated with a given word (most words being monosyllabic) varies depending on the prosodic/syntactic context in which the word is used. A monosyllabic word that appears in isolation or that appears in a prominent position in a tone group bears what has been called its citation tone. When the w...

Most of the world’s languages use both segment and lexical tone to distinguish word meanings. However, few studies on spoken recognition in show conflicting results concerning relative contribution (sub-)syllabic constituents, time course how segmental tonal information is utilised. In Experiments 1 & 2, participants listened monosyllabic Mandarin words with presence a phonological competitor, ...

The prosody of a prototypical Norwegian word is characterized by the following properties: (i) it is disyllabic, (ii) the initial syllable is bimoraic and stressed, and (iii) the final syllable is monomoraic and unstressed (Kristoffersen 2000). The weight of the initial syllable can be realized either with a long vowel or by closing the syllable, e.g. with a geminate. Norwegian words can also b...