title: Reconsidering the role of temporal order in spoken word recognition.
abstract: Models of spoken word recognition assume that words are represented as sequences of phonemes. We evaluated this assumption by examining phonemic anadromes, words that share the same phonemes but differ in their order (e.g., sub and bus). Using the visual-world paradigm, we found that listeners show more fixations to anadromes (e.g., sub when bus is the target) than to unrelated words (well) and to words that share the same vowel but not the same set of phonemes (sun). This contrasts with the predictions of existing models and suggests that words are not defined as strict sequences of phonemes.
authors: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA, jtoscano@illinois.edu.
authors: Joseph C
authors: JC
authors: Toscano
authors: Nathaniel D
authors: ND
authors: Anderson
authors: Bob
authors: B
authors: McMurray
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements / Q000295:instrumentation; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult