PSYC3331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phoneme
Features
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> Phonemes
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> Words
Inhibitory links between competing units at the same level
Frequency effect
(as revealed in the
lexical decision task
): Either a higher resting level of activation in
the word unit, or stronger links between the sublexical units and the word unit
Can observe activation of individual units across time
TRACE model accounts for the "shigarette" effect:
The TRACE model
Sunday, 17 June 2018 6:46 PM
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Inhibitory links between competing units at the same level. Frequency effect (as revealed in the lexical decision task): either a higher resting level of activation in the word unit, or stronger links between the sublexical units and the word unit. Can observe activation of individual units across time. Thus, shigarette will eventually be recognised as cigarette. It seems that the listener keeps going as long as the incoming information continues to activate a word unit: People don"t hear in (or even invest) as the first word in the nonsense phrase. Instead they hear investigate, the longest word at the beginning. So, if we hear a sentence containing the word in, we presumably go beyond the in at first. It"s only if this doesn"t lead to a meaningful analysis, that we re- parse information stored in echoic memory and treat in as a word in its own right. There is also a problem in speech recognition of speaker variability.
