Voornaam is not (really) a homophone : lexical prosody and lexical access in Dutch

Anne Cutler, Wilma van Donselaar

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    Abstract

    Four experiments examined Dutch listeners' use of suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition. Isolated syllables excised from minimal stress pairs such as VOORnaam/voorNAAM could be reliably assigned to their source words. In lexical decision, no priming was observed from one member of minimal stress pairs to the other, suggesting that the pairs' segmental ambiguity was removed by suprasegmental information. Words embedded in nonsense strings were harder to detect if the nonsense string itself formed the beginning of a competing word, but a suprasegmental mismatch to the competing word significantly reduced this inhibition. The same nonsense strings facilitated recognition of the longer words of which they constituted the beginning, but again the facilitation was significantly reduced by suprasegmental mismatch.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalLanguage and Speech
    Publication statusPublished - 2001

    Keywords

    • Dutch
    • accents and accentuation
    • lexical access
    • word recognition

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