Perceptual Similarity Modulates Context Effects in Online Compensation for Phonological Variation
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During the process of spoken word recognition, listeners must cope with a large amount of variation in the speech signal. Some of this variation is conditioned by context (e.g. allophonic variation) and thus, regular and predictable. Faced with this kind of variation, listeners must be able to map two or more acoustically distinct surface forms onto the same lexical representation. In this paper, we investigate listeners’ ability to compensate for one such alternation – word-final tapping in American English. Specifically, we present evidence to counter Ranbom, Connine and Yudman’s (2009) claim that context is irrelevant in the recovery of tapped forms in American English.
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