TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Kager, Rene
T1  - Is speech processing influenced by abstract or detailed phonotactic representations? The case of the Obligatory Contour Principle
JF  - Lingua : international review of general linguistics
N2  - Many languages restrict their lexicons by OCP-Place, a phonotactic constraint against co-occurrences of consonants with shared [place] (e.g., McCarthy, 1986). While many previous studies have suggested that listeners have knowledge of OCP-Place and use this for speech processing, it is less clear whether they make reference to an abstract representation of this constraint. In Dutch, OCP-Place gradiently restricts non-adjacent consonant co-occurrences in the lexicon. Focusing on labial-vowel-labial co-occurrences, we found that there are, however, exceptions from the general effect of OCP-Labial: (A) co-occurrences of identical labials are systematically less restricted than co-occurrences of homorganic labials, and (B) some specific pairs (e.g., /pVp/, /bVv/) occur more often than expected. Setting out to study whether exceptions such as (A) and (B) had an effect on processing, the current study presents an artificial language learning experiment and a reanalysis of Boll-Avetisyan and Kager's (2014) speech segmentation data. Results indicate that Dutch listeners can use both knowledge of phonotactic detail and an abstract constraint OCP-Labial as a cue for speech segmentation. We suggest that whether detailed or abstract representations are drawn on depends on the complexity of processing demands.
KW  - OCP
KW  - Artificial language learning
KW  - Speech segmentation
KW  - Phonotactics
KW  - Identity
KW  - Phonotactic probability
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.11.008
SN  - 0024-3841
SN  - 1872-6135
VL  - 171
SP  - 74
EP  - 91
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -