On the locus of the syllable frequency effect in speech production

Article Abstract:

Two main issues are investigated in a study with respect to the processing of syllables, one which concerns the processing level(s) at which syllabic information is represented, and another that examines whether syllables are represented and retrieved from a mental store, or whether they are computed on-line. Findings indicate that syllable frequency affects the stage of phonetic encoding, an interpretation that is consistent with the previously postulated hypothesis that phonetic encoding involves the retrieval of syllable sized representations.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics), Syllabaries

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Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing

Article Abstract:

The phonological properties of artificial language learning (ALL) stimuli are investigated with particular focus on series of segmentation experiments that assessed learners' ability to detect nonadjacent dependencies. The results of these experiments indicate that phonological factors in ALL experiments need careful experimental control, given the sensitivity of learners to both the phonological and distributional structure of artificial language learning materials.

Language acquisition

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Do writing and speaking employ the same syntactic representations?

Article Abstract:

Syntactic priming is used while conducting three experiments to investigate whether writing and speaking use the same mechanisms to construct syntactic form. The results suggest that the processor employs the same mechanism for syntactic encoding in written and spoken production, and that use of a syntactic form primes structural features concerned with syntactic encoding that are perceptually independent.

Priming (Psychology)

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