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SPOKEN WORD ACCESS PROCESSES (SWAP)May 29-31, 2000 |
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SPOKEN WORD ACCESS PROCESSES (SWAP)May 29-31, 2000 |
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In the field of visual object recognition, it is debated whether objects
are stored in memory using abtract, 3D, structural representations, or,
rather, quasi-pictorial, low-level, 2D analogical representations. The
same question can be translated into the field of auditory word recognition
where one can broadly distinguish between two classes of word recognition
models: Models in the first class postulate that the mental representations
of word forms specify detailed acoustic/phonetic features and the mapping
between the signal and these representation is a "direct" comparison. Models
in the second class postulate abstract phonological representations and
a process of phonological parsing between the signal and these representations.
We will present several psycholinguistic experiments that attempt to distinguish
between the two types of models.
Bibliographic reference. Pallier, Christophe (2000): "Word recognition: Do we need phonological representations?", In SWAP-2000, 159-162.