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  Help or hindrance: How violation of different assimilation rules affects spoken-language processing

Weber, A. (2001). Help or hindrance: How violation of different assimilation rules affects spoken-language processing. Language and Speech, 44(1), 95-118. doi:10.1177/00238309010440010401.

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Free keywords: assimilation; facilitation; inhibition; novel popout
 Abstract: Four phoneme-detection studies tested the conclusion from recent research that spoken-language processing is inhibited by violation of obligatory assimilation processes in the listeners’ native language. In Experiment 1, native listeners of German detected a target fricative in monosyllabic Dutch nonwords, half of which violated progressive German fricative place assimilation. In contrast to the earlier findings, listeners detected the fricative more quickly when assimilation was violated than when no violation occurred. This difference was not due to purely acoustic factors, since in Experiment 2 native Dutch listeners, presented with the same materials, showed no such effect. In Experiment 3, German listeners again detected the fricative more quickly when violation occurred in both monosyllabic and bisyllabic native nonwords, further ruling out explanations based on non-native input or on syllable structure. Finally Experiment 4 tested whether the direction in which the rule operates (progressive or regressive) controls the direction of the effect on phoneme detection responses.When regressive German place assimilation for nasals was violated, German listeners detected stops more slowly, exactly as had been observed in previous studies of regressive assimilation. It is argued that a combination of low expectations in progressive assimilation and novel popout causes facilitation of processing,whereas not fulfilling high expectations in regressive assimilation causes inhibition.

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 Dates: 2001
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Title: Language and Speech
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Publ. Info: Hampton Hill, Eng. [etc.] : Kingston Press Services, Ltd.
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 44 (1) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 95 - 118 Identifier: Other: 954925264209
ISSN: 0023-8309