The Best Laid Plans: Consequences Of Form Preparation In Speech Production
The form preparation procedure reveals the effective units of speech planning. We extend this paradigm to examine the robustness of planning itself and the consequences of planning on plan-external responses.Participants prepared homogeneous sets of four words that shared onsets, or heterogeneous sets, and then were cued to produce these and other unprepared words. Prepared words showed a homogeneity advantage. Unprepared words showed a homogeneity disadvantage. Form preparation is robust and its consequences are revealing.
Discrete Recitation: A New Window On Word Production
Continuous recitation of related word pairs (e.g. webwell) shows phonological competition exacerbated by lexical frequency in global measures but not in local duration measures. We devised a discrete variation where participants produced pairs to variable interval cues. Initiation times were sensitive, across eight consecutive productions, to relatedness, but only when high frequency words were present. Thus high frequency words trigger premonitory competition, and all words incur a slower phonological competition process during production.
Syllables are chunks in Mandarin, not in Spanish or English
Uncertainty still characterizes the role of syllables in language production within and across languages. We examined the hypotheses that syllables channel phonological encoding in European languages, perhaps more strongly in Romance than in Germanic languages, and that syllables are themselves primary encoding units in Chinese. We report parallel disyllable word-pair recitation experiments in three languages using variants of a classic design in which first syllable alignment is crossed with phonological overlap (e.g., aligned CVC: ham.let ham.per; unaligned CV ma.lice mag.net). › Continue reading