Consonant-vowel cohesiveness in speech production as revealed by initial and final consonant exchanges.
| Number | 604 |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Drawer | 11 |
| Entry Date | 11/17/1999 |
| Authors | Fowler, C. A. |
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| Publication | Speech Communication, 6, 231-244. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0604.pdf |
| Abstract | Two experiments (N = 18, 12) use a procedure developed by R. Carter & J. Bradshaw (see LLBA 20/1, 8601730) to examine the role of syllable structure in speech production. In the procedure, Subjects exchange phonological segments in corresponding positions of a pair of visually presented words or nonwords & produce the resulting words or nonwords as quickly as possible. Carter & Bradshaw have shown that the pattern of latencies mirrors that of frequencies of exchange errors in natural speech. Experiment 1 shows that initial consonant exchanges are promoted by phonetic similarity of the exchanging consonantss & they reflect a bias for producing real words. With these influences controlled, experiment 2 replicates & extends the finding of Carter & Bradshaw that initial consonant exchanges are made more rapidly than final consonant exchanges. The discussion relates the latency difference between these conditions to a difference in the "cohesiveness" of initial & final conss with their vowel. In particular, in experiment 2, more than 33% of errors made on final-cons or vowel exchanges are exchanges of the whole syllable rhyme (VC), whereas just 10% of errors made on initial cons or vowel exchanges are exchanges of the initial CV of the word. Various explanations for the difference in cohesiveness are examined in post hoc analyses. |
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