Does the feature [sonorant] influence access to lexical entries? We created two nonwords by replacing a fricative in a real word with either another fricative (match condition) or a resonant (mismatch condition). Participants heard the nonwords and were asked to recover the real word. Errors were greater in the mismatch condition, suggesting that [-sonorant] is represented in the target fricative. Similar effects appeared when we used stops instead of fricatives. Resonant targets showed no difference in match and mismatch conditions.
Cite as: Moates, D.R., Bond, Z.S., Fox, R., Stockmal, V. (2005) The feature [sonorant] in lexical access. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 2869-2872, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-758
@inproceedings{moates05_interspeech,
author={Danny R. Moates and Zinny S. Bond and Russell Fox and Verna Stockmal},
title={{The feature [sonorant] in lexical access}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={2869--2872},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-758}
}