Cooper Nicole, Cutler Anne, Wales Roger
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Lang Speech. 2002 Sep;45(Pt 3):207-28. doi: 10.1177/00238309020450030101.
Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and non-native (Dutch) listeners. Previous results had indicated that suprasegmental information was exploited in lexical access by Dutch but not by English listeners For both listener groups, recognition of visually presented target words was faster, in comparison to a control condition, after stress-matching spoken primes, either monosyllabic (mus- from MUsic/muSEum) or bisyl-word recognition labic (admi-from ADmiral/admiRAtion). For native listeners, the effect of stress-mismatching bisyllabic primes was not different from that of control primes, but mismatching monosyllabic primes produced partial facilitation. For non-native listeners, both bisyllabic and monosyllabic stress-mismatching primes produced partial facilitation. Native English listeners thus can exploit suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition, but information from two syllables is used more effectively than information from one syllable. Dutch listeners are less proficient at using suprasegmental information in English than in their native language, but, as in their native language, use mono- and bisyllabic information to an equal extent. In forced-choice identification. Dutch listeners outperformed native listeners at correctly assigning a monosyllabic fragment (e.g.. mus-) to one of two words differing in stress.
四项跨模态启动实验和两项强制选择识别实验，研究了以英语为母语的听众和非母语（荷兰语）听众在识别英语口语单词时，利用超音段线索来突出重音的情况。先前的研究结果表明，荷兰语听众在词汇提取过程中会利用超音段信息，而英语听众则不会。对于这两组听众而言，在与单音节（如来自MUsic/muSEum的mus-）或双音节（如来自ADmiral/admiRAtion的admi-）的重音匹配的口语启动词之后，与控制条件相比，视觉呈现的目标单词的识别速度更快。对于以英语为母语的听众来说，双音节启动词重音不匹配的效果与控制启动词的效果没有差异，但单音节启动词重音不匹配会产生部分促进作用。对于非母语听众来说，双音节和单音节重音不匹配的启动词都会产生部分促进作用。因此，以英语为母语的听众在口语单词识别中可以利用超音段信息，但两个音节的信息比一个音节的信息使用得更有效。荷兰语听众在英语中利用超音段信息的能力不如在其母语中熟练，但与在母语中一样，他们对单音节和双音节信息的利用程度相同。在强制选择识别中，荷兰语听众在将单音节片段（如mus-）正确分配到两个重音不同的单词之一方面，表现优于以英语为母语的听众。
