2008
Gradient Sensitivity to Within-Category Variation in Words and Syllables
McMurray B, Aslin RN, Tanenhaus MK, Spivey MJ, Subik D. Gradient Sensitivity to Within-Category Variation in Words and Syllables. Journal Of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance 2008, 34: 1609-1631. PMID: 19045996, PMCID: PMC3011988, DOI: 10.1037/a0011747.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVoice onset time continuumLexical identification taskAcoustic-phonetic informationLexical competitorsWord recognitionCategory boundariesIdentification taskNatural speechResponse alternativesExperiment 1Experiment 2Acoustic variabilitySynthetic speechEye movementsSpeech signalTime continuumSpeechVOTTaskTypes of tokensPhonemesListenersSyllablesConsonantsPerception
2004
Young children’s sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon
Coady J, Aslin R. Young children’s sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology 2004, 89: 183-213. PMID: 15501451, PMCID: PMC5531272, DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.07.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIndividual phonetic segmentsChildren's sensitivityPhonetic segmentsNonword repetition taskAcoustic-phonetic informationYoung children's sensitivityYoung childrenGroup of childrenEase of articulationProbabilistic phonotacticsLexical representationsRepetition taskLexical variablesPhoneme frequencyPhonotactic structureSound structureNonwordsAmerican EnglishOlder childrenChildrenLexiconAcoustic natureLarger unitsPhonotacticsSpeech