title: Polling the effective neighborhoods of spoken words with the verbal transformation effect.
abstract: Studies of the effects of lexical neighbors upon the recognition of spoken words have generally assumed that the most salient competitors differ by a single phoneme. The present study employs a procedure that induces the listeners to perceive and call out the salient competitors. By presenting a recording of a monosyllable repeated over and over, perceptual adaptation is produced, and perception of the stimulus is replaced by perception of a competitor. Reports from groups of subjects were obtained for monosyllables that vary in their frequency-weighted neighborhood density. The findings are compared with predictions based upon the neighborhood activation model.
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bashford
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Lenz
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010700:Phonetics; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D012660:Semantics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception