TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris
A1  - Viebahn, Malte Clemens
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
T1  - Plasticity and transfer in the sound system
BT  - exposure to syllables in production or perception changes their subsequent production
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - This study focuses on the ability of the adult sound system to reorganise as a result of experience. Participants were exposed to existing and novel syllables in either a listening task or a production task over the course of two days. On the third day, they named disyllabic pseudowords while their electroencephalogram was recorded. The first syllable of these pseudowords had either been trained in the auditory modality, trained in production or had not been trained. The EEG response differed between existing and novel syllables for untrained but not for trained syllables, indicating that training novel sound sequences modifies the processes involved in the production of these sequences to make them more similar to those underlying the production of existing sound sequences. Effects of training on the EEG response were observed both after production training and mere auditory exposure.
KW  - Language production
KW  - EEG
KW  - syllables
KW  - phonetic encoding
KW  - transfer
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1782445
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 35
IS  - 10
SP  - 1371
EP  - 1393
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris
A1  - Viebahn, Malte Clemens
A1  - Racine, Isabelle
A1  - Mabut, Cassandre
A1  - Spinelli, Elsa
T1  - Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition
BT  - myth or reality?
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - In connected speech, many words are produced with a pronunciation that differs from the canonical form. How the speech recognition system deals with this variation is a fundamental issue in the language processing literature. The present study examines the roles of variant type, variant frequency, and context in the processing of French words with a canonical (schwa variant, e.g. semaine “week”) and a non-canonical pronunciation (no-schwa variant, s’maine). It asks whether the processing of canonical pronunciations is faster than the processing of non-canonical ones. Results of three lexical decision experiments reveal that more frequent variants are recognised more quickly, and that there is no advantage for canonical forms once variant frequency is accounted for. Two of these experiments further failed to find evidence that the context in which the words are presented modulate the effect of variant type. These findings are discussed in the light of spoken word recognition models.
KW  - Spoken word recognition
KW  - phonological variation
KW  - exposure frequency
KW  - French schwa
KW  - context
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1388412
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 33
IS  - 4
SP  - 494
EP  - 511
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Viebahn, Malte Clemens
A1  - McQueen, James Milroy
A1  - Ernestus, Mirjam Theresia Constantia
A1  - Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans
A1  - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris
T1  - How much does orthography influence the processing of reduced word forms?
BT  - Evidence from novel-word learning about French schwa deletion
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - This study examines the influence of orthography on the processing of reduced word forms. For this purpose, we compared the impact of phonological variation with the impact of spelling-sound consistency on the processing of words that may be produced with or without the vowel schwa. Participants learnt novel French words in which the vowel schwa was present or absent in the first syllable. In Experiment 1, the words were consistently produced without schwa or produced in a variable manner (i.e., sometimes produced with and sometimes produced without schwa). In Experiment 2, words were always produced in a consistent manner, but an orthographic exposure phase was included in which words that were produced without schwa were either spelled with or without the letter < e >. Results from naming and eye-tracking tasks suggest that both phonological variation and spelling-sound consistency influence the processing of spoken novel words. However, the influence of phonological variation outweighs the effect of spelling-sound consistency. Our findings therefore suggest that the influence of orthography on the processing of reduced word forms is relatively small.
KW  - Novel-word learning
KW  - schwa deletion
KW  - orthography
KW  - spoken-word production
KW  - spoken-word recognition
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817741859
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 71
IS  - 11
SP  - 2378
EP  - 2394
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -