Morphology in auditory lexical processing: Sensitivity to fine phonetic detail 
and insensitivity to suffix reduction

Kemps, Rachèl J. J. K.

doi:10.17617/2.59193

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Morphology in auditory lexical processing: Sensitivity to fine phonetic detail and insensitivity to suffix reduction

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Kemps, Rachèl J. J. K.
Language Comprehension Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Center for Language Studies, external;
Decoding Continuous Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Kemps, R. J. J. K. (2004). Morphology in auditory lexical processing: Sensitivity to fine phonetic detail and insensitivity to suffix reduction. PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen. doi:10.17617/2.59193.

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This dissertation investigates two seemingly contradictory properties of the speech perception system. On the one hand, listeners are extremely sensitive to the fine phonetic details in the speech signal. These subtle acoustic cues can reduce the temporal ambiguity between words that show initial segmental overlap, and can guide lexical activation. On the other hand, comprehension does not seem to be hampered at all by the drastic reductions that typically occur in casual speech. Complete segments, and sometimes even complete syllables, may be missing, but comprehension is seemingly unaffected. This thesis aims at elucidating how words are represented and accessed in the mental lexicon, by investigating these contradictory phenomena for the domain of morphology