title: Dimensions of similarity in the mental lexicon.
abstract: During language production planning, multiple candidate representations are implicitly activated prior to articulation. Lexical representations that are phonologically related to the target (phonological neighbors) are known to influence phonetic properties of the target word. However, the question of which dimensions of phonological similarity contribute to such lexical-phonetic effects remains unanswered. In the present study, we reanalyze phonetic data from a previous study, examining the contrasting predictions of different definitions of phonological similarity. Our results suggest that similarity at the level of position-specific phonological segments best predicts the influence of neighbor activation on phonetic properties of initial consonants.
authors: Psychology Department, Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, 112 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802 USA.
authors: Melinda
authors: M
authors: Fricke
authors: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, 279 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1290 USA, mbaesebe@uoregon.edu.
authors: Melissa M
authors: MM
authors: Baese-Berk
authors: Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2016 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 USA, matt-goldrick@northwestern.edu.
authors: Matthew
authors: M
authors: Goldrick
keywords: interactive models; language production; lexical access; lexical-phonetic variation; lexical-phonological neighborhood