Abstract
Listeners require context to understand the casual pronunciation variants of words that are typical of spontaneous speech [1]. The present study reports two auditory lexical decision experiments, investigating listeners' use of semantic contextual information in the comprehension of unreduced and reduced words. We found a strong semantic priming effect for low frequency unreduced words, whereas there was no such effect for reduced words. Word frequency was facilitatory for all words. These results show that semantic context is relevant especially for the comprehension of unreduced words, which is unexpected given the listener driven explanation of reduction in spontaneous speech.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1867-1870 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
State | Published - 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009 - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: Sep 6 2009 → Sep 10 2009 |
Keywords
- Acoustic reduction
- Latent semantic analysis
- Semantics
- Speech perception
- Word recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Sensory Systems