New Evidence for Prelexical Phonological Processing in Word Recognition.

Dupoux, Emmanuel; Pallier, Christophe; Kakehi, Kazuhiko; Mehler, Jacques

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ERIC Number: EJ639288

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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New Evidence for Prelexical Phonological Processing in Word Recognition.

Dupoux, Emmanuel; Pallier, Christophe; Kakehi, Kazuhiko; Mehler, Jacques

Language and Cognitive Processes, v16 n5-6 p491-505 Oct-Dec 2001

When presented with stimuli that contain illegal consonant clusters, Japanese listeners tend to hear an illusory vowel that makes their perception conform to the phonotactics of the language. Assesses an alternate hypothesis that this illusion is due to a top-down lexical effect. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Consonants, Japanese, Language Processing, Oral Language, Phonology, Vocabulary, Vowels, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Spoken Word Access Processes.