title: Syllable monitoring in internally and externally generated English words.
abstract: The ability of English speakers to monitor internally and externally generated words for syllables was investigated in this paper. An internal speech monitoring task required participants to silently generate a carrier word on hearing a semantically related prompt word (e.g., reveal--divulge). These productions were monitored for prespecified target strings that were either a syllable match (e.g., /daI/), a syllable mismatch (e.g., /daIv/), or unrelated (e.g., /hju:/) to the initial syllable of the word. In all three experiments the longer target sequence was monitored for faster. However, this tendency reached significance only when the longer string also matched a syllable in the carrier word. External speech versions of each experiment were run that yielded a similar influence of syllabicity but only when the syllable match string also had a closed structure. It was concluded that any influence of syllabicity found using either task reflected the properties of a shared perception-based monitoring system.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, United Kingdom. j.l.morgan.20@bham.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jane L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: Linda R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Wheeldon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D013060:Speech; D014825:Vocabulary