2002 TheMinimalUnitofPhonologicalEnc
- (Wheeldon & Lahiri, 2002) ⇒ Linda R. Wheeldon, and Aditi Lahiri. (2002). “The Minimal Unit of Phonological Encoding: Prosodic Or Lexical Word.” In: Cognition, 85(2).
Subject Headings: Morphosyntactic Word.
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Wheeldon and Lahiri (Journal of Memory and Language, 37 (1997) 356) used a prepared speech production task (Sternberg, S., Monsell, S., Knoll, R. L., & Wright, C. E. (1978). The latency and duration of rapid movement sequences: comparisons of speech and typewriting. In G. E. Stelmach (Ed.), Information processing in motor control and learning (pp. 117–152). New York: Academic Press; Sternberg, S., Wright, C. E., Knoll, R. L., & Monsell, S. (1980). Motor programs in rapid speech: additional evidence. In R. A. Cole (Ed.), The perception and production of fluent speech (pp. 507–534). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum) to demonstrate that the latency to articulate a sentence is a function of the number of phonological words it comprises. Latencies for the sentence [Ik zoek het] [water] ‘I seek the water’ were shorter than latencies for sentences like [Ik zoek] [vers] [water] ‘I seek fresh water’. We extend this research by examining the prepared production of utterances containing phonological words that are less than a lexical word in length. Dutch compounds (e.g. ooglid ‘eyelid’) form a single morphosyntactic word and a phonological word, which in turn includes two phonological words. We compare their prepared production latencies to those syntactic phrases consisting of an adjective and a noun (e.g. oudlid ‘old member’) which comprise two morphosyntactic and two phonological words, and to morphologically simple words (e.g. orgel ‘organ’) which comprise one morphosyntactic and one phonological word. Our findings demonstrate that the effect is limited to phrasal level phonological words, suggesting that production models need to make a distinction between lexical and phrasal phonology.
1. Introduction
In this article we focus on the scope of processing during phonological encoding. …
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Since all morphosyntactic words are phonological words, both black and bird are phonological words [bláck][bı́rd] each with their own word stress. Nevertheless, the compound behaves like a single phonological unit with a single main stress and a secondary stress: blFull-size image (<1 K)ckbFull-size image (<1 K)rd (Nespor & Vogel, 1986, p. 112). What is the status of this unit? Descriptively it is a ‘super-word’ and one way of capturing this is to assume that phonological word formation is recursive: {[[black]ω[bird]ω]m/ω}noun2 (cf. Booij, 1995, p. 144) or a regular phonological word (Nespor & Vogel, 1986, pp. 110–118). Further support that compounds are closer to a phonological word than a phrase comes from the domain of phonological rules.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2002 TheMinimalUnitofPhonologicalEnc | Aditi Lahiri Linda R. Wheeldon | The Minimal Unit of Phonological Encoding: Prosodic Or Lexical Word | 2002 |