Our production experiment in Scottish English revealed that the duration of a rhyme immediately followed by a Level II suffix such as –s (the 1 person singular/plural/possessive suffix) and –t (the past tense suffix) was significantly longer than that of a monomorphemic counterpart. Such a durational difference between suffixed forms and monomorphemic forms was absent when the Level II suffix w...

An eye-tracking experiment examined contextual flexibility in speech processing in response to distortions in spoken input. Dutch participants heard Dutch sentences containing critical words and saw four-picture displays. The name of one picture either had the same onset phonemes as the critical word or had a different first phoneme and rhymed. Participants fixated on onset-overlap more than rh...

Models of spoken word recognition in monolingual, native listeners account for the dynamics of lexical activation of intended words and their phonologically similar “competitors,” in terms of continuous, cascaded processing dynamics. Here we explore how the dynamics of spoken word recognition differ for second language listeners. Groups of native Korean speakers (KL1) and native English speaker...

How much can we infer about the pronunciation of a language – past or present – by observing which words its speakers rhyme? This paper explores the connection between pronunciation and network structure in sets of rhymes. We consider the rhyme graphs corresponding to rhyming corpora, where nodes are words and edges are observed rhymes. We describe the graph G corresponding to a corpus of ∼1200...

Despite the ubiquity of inner speech in our mental lives, methods for objectively assessing inner speech capacities remain underdeveloped. The most common means of assessing inner speech is to present participants with tasks requiring them to silently judge whether two words rhyme. We developed a version of this task to assess the inner speech of a population of patients with aphasia and corres...

An eye-tracking experiment examined contextual flexibility in speech processing in response to distortions in spoken input. Dutch participants heard Dutch sentences containing critical words and saw four-picture displays. The name of one picture either had the same onset phonemes as the critical word or had a different first phoneme and rhymed. Participants fixated on onset-overlap more than rh...