The effects of syllable boundary and context on word recognition in Korean continuous speech
- Authors
- Kang, J.; Nam, K.
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Inderscience Publishers
- Keywords
- Context; Korean speech; Resyllabification cost; Syllable; Word recognition
- Citation
- International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, v.8, no.2, pp.162 - 173
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 162
- End Page
- 173
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/100738
- DOI
- 10.1504/IJIIDS.2014.063257
- ISSN
- 1751-5858
- Abstract
- We examined resyllabification cost in spoken word recognition in Korean and found an interaction between syllable boundary and context at the lexical level. Experiment 1 compared a misalignment condition and an alignment condition. The misalignment condition involves the word-final consonant merging with the onset of the next syllable. The alignment condition involves word-vowel match with syllable boundary. Experiment 1, in the word spotting task, showed faster and more accurate word recognition in the alignment than in the misalignment condition. Experiment 2 was conducted to investigate the effects of the syllable boundary as well as context on word recognition. Four types of target stimuli were created: target related-aligned, target related-misaligned, target neutral-aligned, and target neutral-misaligned. Experiment 2, auditory lexical decision task, showed an interaction between syllable boundary and context variables. Thus, we confirmed the syllable's role as a segmentation unit. Furthermore, the context and the syllable boundary significantly affected word recognition at the lexical level together. Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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