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  • Stress priming in picture naming: an SOA study.
    Brain and language, 2020
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert, Clara C. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical Stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the Stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and Final Stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different Stress as the target (e.g., WORtel-MOtor vs. koSTUUM-MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime-target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half unrelated. Overall, picture names were not produced faster when the prime word had the same Stress as the target than when the prime had different Stress, i.e., there was no Stress-priming effect in any experiment. This result would not be expected if Stress were stored in the lexicon. However, targets with initial Stress were responded to faster than Final-Stress targets. The reason for this effect was neither the quality of the pictures nor frequency of occurrence or voice-key characteristics. We hypothesize here that this Stress effect is a genuine encoding effect, i.e., words with Stress on the second syllable take longer to be encoded because their Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular with respect to metrical Stress rules in Dutch. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of models of phonological encoding.

  • Lexical Stress encoding in single word production estimated by event-related brain potentials
    Brain Research, 2006
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller
    Abstract:

    An event-related brain potentials (ERPs) experiment was carried out to investigate the time course of lexical Stress encoding in language production. Native speakers of Dutch viewed a series of pictures corresponding to bisyllabic names which were either Stressed on the first or on the second syllable and made go/no-go decisions on the lexical Stress location of those picture names. Behavioral results replicated a pattern that was observed earlier, i.e. faster button-press latencies to initial as compared to Final Stress targets. The electrophysiological results indicated that participants could make a lexical Stress decision significantly earlier when picture names had initial than when they had Final Stress. Moreover, the present data suggest the time course of lexical Stress encoding during single word form formation in language production. When word length is corrected for, the temporal interval for lexical Stress encoding specified by the current ERP results falls into the time window previously identified for phonological encoding in language production.

  • Monitoring metrical Stress in polysyllabic words
    Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Bernadette M. Jansma, Judith C. Peters, Willem J. M. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigated the monitoring of metrical Stress information in internally generated speech. In Experiment 1, Dutch participants were asked to judge whether bisyllabic picture names had initial or Final Stress. Results showed significantly faster decision times for initially Stressed targets (e.g., KAno "canoe") than for targets with Final Stress (e.g., kaNON "cannon"; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables). It was demonstrated that monitoring latencies are not a function of the picture naming or object recognition latencies to the same pictures. Experiments 2 and 3 replicated the outcome of the first experiment with trisyllabic picture names. These results are similar to the findings of Wheeldon and Levelt (1995) in a segment monitoring task. The outcome might be interpreted to demonstrate that phonological encoding in speech production is a rightward incremental process. Alternatively, the data might reflect the sequential nature of a perceptual mechanism used to monitor lexical Stress.

  • Stress priming in picture naming: An SOA study
    Brain and Language, 2004
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert, Clara C. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical Stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the Stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and Final Stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different Stress as the target (e.g., WORtel–MOtor vs. koSTUUM–MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime–target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half unrelated. Overall, picture names were not produced faster when the prime word had the same Stress as the target than when the prime had different Stress, i.e., there was no Stress-priming effect in any experiment. This result would not be expected if Stress were stored in the lexicon. However, targets with initial Stress were responded to faster than Final-Stress targets. The reason for this effect was neither the quality of the pictures nor frequency of occurrence or voice-key characteristics. We hypothesize here that this Stress effect is a genuine encoding effect, i.e., words with Stress on the second syllable take longer to be encoded because their Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular with respect to metrical Stress rules in Dutch. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of models of phonological encoding. 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Metrical priming in speech production
    2003
    Co-Authors: Clara C. Levelt, Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert
    Abstract:

    In this paper we report on four experiments in which we attempted to prime the Stress position of Dutch bisyllabic target nouns. These nouns, picture names, had Stress on either the first or the second syllable. Auditory prime words had either the same Stress as the target or a different Stress (e.g., WORtel - MOtor vs. koSTUUM - MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime - target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half were unrelated. In none of the experiments a Stress priming effect was found. This could mean that Stress is not stored in the lexicon. An additional finding was that targets with initial Stress had a faster response than targets with a Final Stress. We hypothesize that bisyllabic words with Final Stress take longer to be encoded because this Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular in terms of the metrical Stress rules of Dutch.

Clara C. Levelt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Stress priming in picture naming: an SOA study.
    Brain and language, 2020
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert, Clara C. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical Stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the Stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and Final Stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different Stress as the target (e.g., WORtel-MOtor vs. koSTUUM-MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime-target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half unrelated. Overall, picture names were not produced faster when the prime word had the same Stress as the target than when the prime had different Stress, i.e., there was no Stress-priming effect in any experiment. This result would not be expected if Stress were stored in the lexicon. However, targets with initial Stress were responded to faster than Final-Stress targets. The reason for this effect was neither the quality of the pictures nor frequency of occurrence or voice-key characteristics. We hypothesize here that this Stress effect is a genuine encoding effect, i.e., words with Stress on the second syllable take longer to be encoded because their Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular with respect to metrical Stress rules in Dutch. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of models of phonological encoding.

  • Stress priming in picture naming: An SOA study
    Brain and Language, 2004
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert, Clara C. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical Stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the Stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and Final Stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different Stress as the target (e.g., WORtel–MOtor vs. koSTUUM–MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime–target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half unrelated. Overall, picture names were not produced faster when the prime word had the same Stress as the target than when the prime had different Stress, i.e., there was no Stress-priming effect in any experiment. This result would not be expected if Stress were stored in the lexicon. However, targets with initial Stress were responded to faster than Final-Stress targets. The reason for this effect was neither the quality of the pictures nor frequency of occurrence or voice-key characteristics. We hypothesize here that this Stress effect is a genuine encoding effect, i.e., words with Stress on the second syllable take longer to be encoded because their Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular with respect to metrical Stress rules in Dutch. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of models of phonological encoding. 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Metrical priming in speech production
    2003
    Co-Authors: Clara C. Levelt, Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert
    Abstract:

    In this paper we report on four experiments in which we attempted to prime the Stress position of Dutch bisyllabic target nouns. These nouns, picture names, had Stress on either the first or the second syllable. Auditory prime words had either the same Stress as the target or a different Stress (e.g., WORtel - MOtor vs. koSTUUM - MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime - target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half were unrelated. In none of the experiments a Stress priming effect was found. This could mean that Stress is not stored in the lexicon. An additional finding was that targets with initial Stress had a faster response than targets with a Final Stress. We hypothesize that bisyllabic words with Final Stress take longer to be encoded because this Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular in terms of the metrical Stress rules of Dutch.

Paula Fikkert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Stress priming in picture naming: an SOA study.
    Brain and language, 2020
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert, Clara C. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical Stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the Stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and Final Stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different Stress as the target (e.g., WORtel-MOtor vs. koSTUUM-MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime-target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half unrelated. Overall, picture names were not produced faster when the prime word had the same Stress as the target than when the prime had different Stress, i.e., there was no Stress-priming effect in any experiment. This result would not be expected if Stress were stored in the lexicon. However, targets with initial Stress were responded to faster than Final-Stress targets. The reason for this effect was neither the quality of the pictures nor frequency of occurrence or voice-key characteristics. We hypothesize here that this Stress effect is a genuine encoding effect, i.e., words with Stress on the second syllable take longer to be encoded because their Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular with respect to metrical Stress rules in Dutch. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of models of phonological encoding.

  • Stress priming in picture naming: An SOA study
    Brain and Language, 2004
    Co-Authors: Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert, Clara C. Levelt
    Abstract:

    This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical Stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the Stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and Final Stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different Stress as the target (e.g., WORtel–MOtor vs. koSTUUM–MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime–target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half unrelated. Overall, picture names were not produced faster when the prime word had the same Stress as the target than when the prime had different Stress, i.e., there was no Stress-priming effect in any experiment. This result would not be expected if Stress were stored in the lexicon. However, targets with initial Stress were responded to faster than Final-Stress targets. The reason for this effect was neither the quality of the pictures nor frequency of occurrence or voice-key characteristics. We hypothesize here that this Stress effect is a genuine encoding effect, i.e., words with Stress on the second syllable take longer to be encoded because their Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular with respect to metrical Stress rules in Dutch. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of models of phonological encoding. 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Metrical priming in speech production
    2003
    Co-Authors: Clara C. Levelt, Niels O. Schiller, Paula Fikkert
    Abstract:

    In this paper we report on four experiments in which we attempted to prime the Stress position of Dutch bisyllabic target nouns. These nouns, picture names, had Stress on either the first or the second syllable. Auditory prime words had either the same Stress as the target or a different Stress (e.g., WORtel - MOtor vs. koSTUUM - MOtor; capital letters indicate Stressed syllables in prime - target pairs). Furthermore, half of the prime words were semantically related, the other half were unrelated. In none of the experiments a Stress priming effect was found. This could mean that Stress is not stored in the lexicon. An additional finding was that targets with initial Stress had a faster response than targets with a Final Stress. We hypothesize that bisyllabic words with Final Stress take longer to be encoded because this Stress pattern is irregular with respect to the lexical distribution of bisyllabic Stress patterns, even though it can be regular in terms of the metrical Stress rules of Dutch.

Antoni Rodriguezfornells - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • beneficial effects of word Final Stress in segmenting a new language evidence from erps
    BMC Neuroscience, 2008
    Co-Authors: Toni Cunillera, Antoni Gomila, Antoni Rodriguezfornells
    Abstract:

    How do listeners manage to recognize words in an unfamiliar language? The physical continuity of the signal, in which real silent pauses between words are lacking, makes it a difficult task. However, there are multiple cues that can be exploited to localize word boundaries and to segment the acoustic signal. In the present study, word-Stress was manipulated with statistical information and placed in different syllables within trisyllabic nonsense words to explore the result of the combination of the cues in an online word segmentation task. The behavioral results showed that words were segmented better when Stress was placed on the Final syllables than when it was placed on the middle or first syllable. The electrophysiological results showed an increase in the amplitude of the P2 component, which seemed to be sensitive to word-Stress and its location within words. The results demonstrated that listeners can integrate specific prosodic and distributional cues when segmenting speech. An ERP component related to word-Stress cues was identified: Stressed syllables elicited larger amplitudes in the P2 component than unStressed ones.

Thomas Berg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • phonological processing in a syllable timed language with pre Final Stress evidence from spanish speech error data
    Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
    Co-Authors: Thomas Berg
    Abstract:

    Abstract In previous studies on English and German slips-of-the-tongue, it was shown that consonants at the beginning of words are more susceptible to malfunction than in any other position and that segments belonging to Stressed syllables are more vulnerable than those in unStressed syllables. An in-depth analysis of a large corpus of errors reveals that both of these empirical claims cannot be replicated for Spanish. In the Spanish language, it is true that onset errors outnumber coda errors as in German and English, but nonword-initial, syllable-initial substitutions are found to be more common than word-initial ones. Furthermore, segmental slips-of-the-tongue occur with chance frequency in Stressed and unStressed syllables. Both findings are not a trivial processing consequence of some structural particularity of Spanish. These results question the validity of processing models that have been proposed to account for data from the Germanic languages. Two hypotheses are discussed: (1) The stability of w...