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3 Eight questions about spoken word recognition
Get accessJames M. McQueen is Professor of Speech and Learning at Radboud University. He studied experimental psychology at the University of Oxford and obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a principal investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Centre for Cognition) and is an affiliated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. His research focuses on learning and processing in spoken language: How do listeners learn the sounds and words of their native and non-native languages, and how do they recognize them? His research on speech learning concerns initial acquisition processes and ongoing processes of perceptual adaptation. His research on speech processing addresses core computational problems (such as the variability and segmentation problems). He has a multi-disciplinary perspective on psycholinguistics, combining insights from cognitive psychology, phonetics, linguistics, and neuroscience.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
Since word recognition is at the heart of the language-comprehension process, it has also always been a central topic in psycholinguistics. This article reviews current evidence on spoken word recognition, focusing on what is assumed to be the key aspect of the process: the way in which the listener derives from a spoken utterance a satisfactory lexical parse. The assumption is that this process entails abstraction, that is, a type of decoding in which the specific acoustic realisation of any given utterance is mapped onto store knowledge about the phonological form of individual words. To begin, what information in the speech signal is used in word recognition? Where are the words in the continuous speech stream? Which words did the speaker intend? When are the phonological forms of words recognised: How are words recognised? Whither spoken word recognition? The review of uptake of fine-grained segmental and suprasegmental information made clear that the speech signal is not just a sequence of phonemes.
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