CROSS LINGUISTIC STUDIES ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

长期目标是理解口语 跨语言处理这一目标对健康的影响 涉及言语知觉研究的临床应用， 听觉词识别跨语言研究界定了 理论，并确定在人类语言中起作用的参数 处理.该项目的具体目标是：（1）研究 语音对言语知觉的影响;（2）词法对词的影响 （3）词汇结构/语音对词的影响 识别.四个关键实验解决了这些目标中的第一个。Exp. A1 测试了美国英语发音停顿位置的知觉突显性 (AE)日本听众。信号检测分析用于比较 组Exp. A2是A1的复制品，刺激由日本人产生 健谈的人实验A4-5在AE和印地语的比较中具有相同的设计 听众两个实验涉及第二个具体目标。Exp. B1测试 声发射听觉词识别中后缀的分解。Exp. B2是 芬兰人也一样。这些实验的比较将突出处理 基于两种语言非常不同的形态的差异。两 实验涉及第三个具体目标。这些是日文的复制品 两个重要的实验证明了词汇结构在 听觉词识别这些实验测试了 听觉词识别中词汇密度效应的音节结构。

The long-term objective is to understand spoken language processing cross-linguistically. The health implications of this objective relate to the clinical application of research on speech perception and auditory word recognition. Cross-linguistic studies delimit the range of theories and identify parameters that are operative in human language processing. The specific aims of the project are to conduct studies on (1) the impact of phonology on speech perception, (2) the impact of morphology on word recognition and (3) the impact of lexical structure/phonotactics on word recognition. Four key experiments address the first of these aims. Exp. A1 tests the perceptual salience of stop place of articulation by American English (AE) and Japanese listeners. Signal detection analysis is used to compare the groups. Exp. A2 is a replication of A1 with stimuli produced by Japanese talkers. Experiments A4-5 have the same design in a comparison of AE and Hindi listeners. Two experiments address the second specific aim. Exp. B1 tests for the decomposition of suffixes in AE auditory word recognition. Exp. B2 does the same for Finnish. Comparison of these experiments will highlight processing differences based on the very different morphologies of the two languages. Two experiments address the third specific aim. These are replications in Japanese of two important experiments demonstrating the role of lexical structure in auditory word recognition. These experiments test for mediating effects of syllable structure in the lexical density effect in auditory word recognition.