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- Title
Effects of Lexical Competition and Dialect Exposure on Phonological Priming.
- Authors
Clopper, Cynthia G.; Walker, Abby
- Abstract
A cross-modal lexical decision task was used to explore the effects of lexical competition and dialect exposure on phonological form priming. Relative to unrelated auditory primes, matching real word primes facilitated lexical decision for visual real word targets, whereas competing minimal pair primes inhibited lexical decision. These effects were robust across two English vowel pairs (mid-front and low-front) and for two listener groups (mono-dialectal and multi-dialectal). However, both the most robust facilitation and the most robust inhibition were observed for the mid-front vowel words with few phonological competitors for the mono-dialectal listener group. The mid-front vowel targets were acoustically more distinct than the low-front vowel targets, suggesting that acoustic-phonetic similarity leads to stronger lexical competition and less robust facilitation and inhibition. The multi-dialectal listeners had more prior exposure to multiple different dialects than the mono-dialectal group, suggesting that long-term exposure to linguistic variability contributes to a more flexible processing strategy in which lexical competition extends over a longer period of time, leading to less robust facilitation and inhibition.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AUDITORY perception; CHI-squared test; DIALECTS; LANGUAGE &; languages; PHONETICS; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIAL skills; VOWELS; PHONOLOGICAL awareness; UNDERGRADUATES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Language & Speech, 2017, Vol 60, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0023830916643737