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Does Talker‐Specific Information Influence Lexical Competition? Evidence From Phonological Priming
Author(s) -
Dufour Sophie,
Nguyen Noël
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1111/cogs.12472
Subject(s) - priming (agriculture) , lexical decision task , repetition priming , psychology , repetition (rhetorical device) , prime (order theory) , word (group theory) , word recognition , speech recognition , linguistics , computer science , cognitive psychology , mathematics , cognition , biology , philosophy , botany , germination , reading (process) , combinatorics , neuroscience
In this study, we examined whether the lexical competition process embraced by most models of spoken word recognition is sensitive to talker‐specific information. We used a lexical decision task and a long lag priming experiment in which primes and targets sharing all phonemes except the last one (e.g., /bagaR/“fight” vs. /bagaƷ/“luggage”) were presented in two separate blocks of stimuli. In Experiment 1, the competitor prime block was presented only once to listeners, and no modulation of the competitor priming effect as a function of a talker change between the primes and targets was observed. However, attenuation in the competitor priming effect in the case of a talker change between the primes and targets was observed in Experiment 2 in which the competitor prime block was presented five times to listeners. We discuss our findings in reference to hybrid models of spoken word recognition in which repetition of words with the same talker could be a key factor in the formation and access to talker‐dependent representations.