Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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926756 | Cognition | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions to manipulate one of four objects pictured on a computer screen. Target words occurred in utterance-medial (e.g., Put the cap next to the square) or utterance-final position (e.g., Now click on the cap). Displays consisted of the target picture (e.g., a cap), a monosyllabic competitor picture (e.g., a cat), a polysyllabic competitor picture (e.g., a captain) and a distractor (e.g., a beaker). The relative proportion of fixations to the two types of competitor pictures changed as a function of the position of the target word in the utterance, demonstrating that lexical competition is modulated by prosodically conditioned phonetic variation.
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Authors
Anne Pier Salverda, Delphine Dahan, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Katherine Crosswhite, Mikhail Masharov, Joyce McDonough,