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Third International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 94)Yokohama, Japan |
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Third International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 94)Yokohama, Japan |
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To investigate the relationship between phoneme perception and word perception, the relationships between the perception point of a word or a nonword and the perception point of a phoneme were measured using lexical decision and phoneme detection tasks for time-compressed stimuli, naturally spoken stimuli, and time-expanded stimuli. The perception point of a word/nonword was revealed to have a constant relationship to the perception point of a phoneme regardless of the time-expansion rate, that is, a constant number of phonemes was perceived before the perception point of a word/nonword. The results suggest that word/nonword perception depends on phoneme perception, not on the time positions of acoustical cues. The results also support the cohort model in which a word/nonword is perceived with the sequential processing of phonemes.
Bibliographic reference. Amano, Shigeaki (1994): "Perception of time-compressed/expanded Japanese words depends on the number of perceived phonemes", In ICSLP-1994, 1415-1418.