A top-down effect on the identification of function words
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Abstract
A realistic-sounding /tə-ðə/ continuum was constructed by successively attenuating the amplitude of the burst + aspiration interval of a naturally produced /tə/. Members of the series were placed before the words “go” and “gold” in two sentence contexts: “We tried-go/gold,” and “-go/gold is essential.” Listeners were asked to identify the critical tokens as “to” or “the.” A shift in the phonetic boundary was evidenced in both sentence frames. Specifically, more “to” responses were made in the “go” contexts and more “the” responses were made in the “gold” contexts. A second experiment is in progress that is designed to ascertain whether effects of syntactic category are present in the absence of linguistic anomaly by using syntactically ambiguous words in the experimental context (e.g., “I like-joke/drive”.) [Work supported by NIMH, NINCDS, and NICHD.]
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