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| Research article summary (published 29 Apr 2003): |
Influence of consonantal context on the pronunciation of vowels: a comparison of human readers and computational models.
Full Abstract
In two experiments, we found that college students' pronunciations of vowels in nonwords are influenced both by preceding and following consonants. The predominance of rimes in previous studies of reading does not appear to arise because readers are unable to pick up associations that cross the onset-rime boundary, but rather because English has relatively few such associations. Comparisons between people's vowel pronunciations and those produced by various computational models of reading showed that no model provided a good account of human performance on nonwords for which the vowel shows contextual conditioning. Possible directions for improved models are suggested.
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Author information
Author/s: Treiman, Rebecca (R); Kessler, Brett (B); Bick, Suzanne (S);
Affiliation: Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4890, USA. rtreiman(-atsign-)artsci.wustl.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Journal: Cognition (Cognition), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-May; vol 88 (issue 1) : pp 49-78
Dates: Created 2003/04/24; Completed 2003/06/18; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12711153, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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