Repair or Violation Detection? Pre-Attentive Processing Strategies of Phonotactic Illegality Demonstrated on the Constraint of g-Deletion in German

Autor/inn/en	Steinberg, Johanna; Jacobsen, Thomas Konstantin; Jacobsen, Thomas
Titel	Repair or Violation Detection? Pre-Attentive Processing Strategies of Phonotactic Illegality Demonstrated on the Constraint of g-Deletion in German
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59 (2016) 3, S.557-571 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2015_JSLHR-H-15-0062
Schlagwörter	German; Phonology; Experiments; Adults; Stimuli; Statistical Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Linguistics; Speech Communication; Phonological Awareness; Assistive Technology; Recognition (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Deutscher; Fonologie; Erprobung; Anreizsystem; Statistische Analyse; Linguistik; Recognition; Wiedererkennen
Abstract	Purpose: Effects of categorical phonotactic knowledge on pre-attentive speech processing were investigated by presenting illegal speech input that violated a phonotactic constraint in German called "g-deletion." The present study aimed to extend previous findings of automatic processing of phonotactic violations and to investigate the role of stimulus context in triggering either an automatic phonotactic repair or a detection of the violation. Method: The mismatch negativity event-related potential component was obtained in 2 identical cross-sectional experiments with speaker variation and 16 healthy adult participants each. Four pseudowords were used as stimuli, 3 of them phonotactically legal and 1 illegal. Stimuli were contrasted pairwise in passive oddball conditions and presented binaurally via headphones. Results were analyzed by means of mixed design analyses of variance. Results: Phonotactically illegal stimuli were found to be processed differently compared to legal ones. Results indicate evidence for both automatic repair and detection of the phonotactic violation depending on the linguistic context the illegal stimulus was embedded in. Conclusions: These findings corroborate notions that categorical phonotactic knowledge is activated and applied even in the absence of attention. Thus, our findings contribute to the general understanding of sublexical phonological processing and may be of use for further developing speech recognition models. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01