Current models of word recognition differ on the potential influence of lexical knowledge on sublexical processes. The present study addresses this issue through a paradigm based on the perceptual ‘‘migration’’ of linguistic units between two stimuli presented simultaneously, resulting in an illusory percept. For example, ‘‘kinrtrorverrsy’’ and ‘‘bosrglorrarfe’’ were played at the same time, wi...

: This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity. To this end, speech monologs of 35 Iranian high-intermediate learners of English on three different tasks (i.e. argumentation, description, and narration) were analyzed for correlations between one measure of sy...

This paper investigated how foreign-accented stress cues affect on-line speech comprehension in British speakers of English. While unstressed English vowels are usually reduced to /ə/, Dutch speakers of English only slightly centralize them. Speakers of both languages differentiate stress by suprasegmentals (duration and intensity). In a cross-modal priming experiment, English listeners heard s...

In this paper, we discuss the possibilities and limitations of the PC-KIMMO system as a recognition device of compound formations in a language like Modern Greek, where compounding interacts with derivation, inflection and lexical phonology. We deal with the computational processing of nominal and verbal compounds and try to show certain limitations of the PCKIMMO software with respect to the p...

The general goal of this thesis is to model the prosodic aspects of speech to improve humancomputer dialogue systems. Towards this goal, we investigate a variety of ways of utilizing prosodic information to enhance speech recognition and understanding performance, and address some issues and difficulties in modeling speech prosody during this process. We explore prosodic modeling in two languag...