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12009047

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-5-14
pubmed:abstractText
Recognizing spoken language involves automatic activation of multiple candidate words. The process of selection between candidates is made more efficient by inhibition of embedded words (like egg in beg) that leave a portion of the input stranded (here, b). Results from European languages suggest that this inhibition occurs when consonants are stranded but not when syllables are stranded. The reason why leftover syllables do not lead to inhibition could be that in principle they might themselves be words; in European languages, a syllable can be a word. In Sesotho (a Bantu language), however, a single syllable cannot be a word. We report that in Sesotho, word recognition is inhibited by stranded consonants, but stranded monosyllables produce no more difficulty than stranded bisyllables (which could be Sesotho words). Thisfinding suggests that the viability constraint which inhibits spurious embedded word candidates is not sensitive to language-specific word structure, but is universal.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0956-7976
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
258-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-5-20
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Universality versus language-specificity in listening to running speech.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. anne.cutler@mpi.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't