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Lexical processing and phonological representation.
Authors:
Lahiri, A. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D.
Reference:
In G. J. Docherty & R.D. Ladd (Eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology II: Gesture, Segment, Prosody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 229-260.
Year of publication:
1992
CBU number:
2442
Abstract:
This paper is concerned with the mental representation of lexical items and with the way in which the acoustic signal is mapped onto these representations during the process of recognition. The cohort model of spoken word-recognition is taken as the basis for assumptions about the processing environment for lexical access. The assumptions about representation are derived from current phonological theory, assuming that the properties phonological theory assigns to underlying representations of lexical form are functionally isomorphic to the listener's representations of lexical form in the recognition lexicon. The implications of these claims are successfully tested in two experiments, one looking at the representation and spreading of the feature [nasal], and the other looking at the representation of quantity in geminate consonants.
