We investigate phonological encoding during unscripted sentence production, focusing on the effect of phonological overlap on phonological encoding. Previous work on this question has almost exclusively employed isolated word production or highly scripted multi-word production. These studies have led to conflicting results: some studies found that phonological overlap between two words facilita...

Recent work recognizes that lexical category can be relevant for phonology, because phonological processes and phonotactics are sometimes category-sensitive (Smith 1997, 2001; Myers 2000; Bobaljik 2008; see also Cohen 1964; Chomsky & Halle 1968; Postal 1968; Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1977). Moreover, there are strong cross-linguistic tendencies concerning the nature of phonological differences be...

1. INTRODUCTION The term 'laboratory phonology' was invented more than a decade ago as the name of an interdisciplinary conference series, and all three of us have co-organized laboratory phonology conferences. Since then, the term has come into use not only for the conference series itself, but for the research activities exemplified by work presented there. In this paper, we give our own pers...

1. INTRODUCTION The term 'laboratory phonology' was invented more than a decade ago as the name of an interdisciplinary conference series, and all three of us have co-organized laboratory phonology conferences. Since then, the term has come into use not only for the conference series itself, but for the research activities exemplified by work presented there. In this paper, we give our own pers...

The condition known as phonological dyslexia involves very poor reading of non-words, with otherwise good word reading performance [e.g. Derouesné & Beauvois, 1979; Sartori, G., Barry, C., & Job, R. (1984). Phonological dyslexia: A review. In R. N. Malatesha & H. A. Whitaker (Eds.), Dyslexia: A global issue. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers]. Theoretical accounts of this non-word reading ...

Early, lesion-based models of language processing suggested that semantic and phonological processes are associated with distinct temporal and parietal regions respectively, with frontal areas more indirectly involved. Contemporary spatial brain mapping techniques have not supported such clear-cut segregation, with strong evidence of activation in left temporal areas by both processes and dispu...

In Prosodic Phonology Theory (Selkirk 1981, 1984, Nespor & Vogel 1986, Hayes 1989), the particular hierarchical organization of a set of universally available prosodic constituents (σ, ω, φ, etc.) captures the rhythmic patterns of languages and the domain of application of a wide variety of phonological processes. Rather than targeting isolated segments or arbitrary groups of segments within th...

In this paper we argue for a slightly modified conception of phonological representations along the lines of Government Phonology. Releasing C and V from their traditional, phonetically oriented connotations as consonants and vowels and promoting them into abstract phonological primitives, we show that phonological elements, melodic expressions and phonological structure can be viewed in a unfi...

Previous research using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) suggested tha t phonological processing in visual word recognition occurs rather la te, typically after seman tic or syntactic processing. Here, we show that phonological activation in visual word recognition can be observed much earlier. Using a lexical d ecision task, we show that ERPs to pseudohomophones (PsHs) (e.g., ROZE) differ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) distinguished regions of neural activity associated with active maintenance of semantic and phonological information. Subjects saw a single word for 2 sec, and following a 10-sec delay, made a judgment about that word. In the semantic task, subjects focused on the meaning of the word and decided whether a second word was synonymous with it. In the ph...