title: Effects of phonetically-cued talker variation on semantic encoding.
abstract: This study reports equivalence in recognition for variable productions of spoken words that differ greatly in frequency. General American (GA) listeners participated in either a semantic priming or a false-memory task, each with three talkers with different accents: GA, New York City (NYC), and Southern Standard British English (BE). GA/BE induced strong semantic priming and low false recall rates. NYC induced no semantic priming but high false recall rates. These results challenge current theory and illuminate encoding-based differences sensitive to phonetically-cued talker variation. The findings highlight the central role of phonetic variation in the spoken word recognition process.
authors: Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94301-2150 sumner@stanford.edu.
authors: Meghan
authors: M
authors: Sumner
authors: Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San José State University, One Washington Square, San José, California 95192-0093 reiko.kataoka@sjsu.edu.
authors: Reiko
authors: R
authors: Kataoka
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D014833:Voice Quality