Speech Comprehension

Paper Summary:

The paper examines an article about the phonological and conceptual activation in speech comprehension and an article about the activation of offset-embedded words. The paper also examines an article about the role of prosodic boundaries in the resolution of lexical embedding in speech comprehension and an article about electro-physiological evidence for early contextual influences during spoken-word recognition. The last article is about the cascaded nature of lexical selection and integration in auditory sentence processing.

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"This article focuses on the process of understanding as it relates to separate lexical representations of sound and meaning. The phonological and conceptual representations in language have been separated, as comprehension are connected to these different concepts separately. In explaining these concepts, the article distinguishes between word representation in the mental lexicon and the lexical candidates for recognizing utterances. When the hearer is the presented with running speech with few clear cues to word boundaries, a mechanism is needed to determine the best sequence in terms of the input. In this way the correct utterance is determined by competition."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Norris, D., Cutler, A., McQueen, J.M., and Butterfield, S. (2006). Phonological and conceptual activation in speech comprehension. Cognitive Psychology 53; 146-193.
• Shatzman, K.B., and McQuenn, J.M. The activation of offset-embedded words: Evidence from eye-tracking and identity priming.
• Salverda, A.P., Dahan, D., McQueen, J.M. (2003). The role of prosodic boundaries in the resolution of lexical embedding in speech comprehension.
• Van den Brink, D., Brown, C.M., and Hagoort, P. (2001). Electrophysiological evidence for early contextual influences during spoke-word recognition: N200 versus N400.
• Van den Brink, D., Brown, C.M., Hagoort, P. (2006). The cascaded nature of lexical selection and integration in auditory sentence processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32 (3): 364-372.

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