TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris
T1  - Variation in the speech signal as a window into the cognitive architecture of language production
JF  - Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2  - The pronunciation of words is highly variable. This variation provides crucial information about the cognitive architecture of the language production system. This review summarizes key empirical findings about variation phenomena, integrating corpus, acoustic, articulatory, and chronometric data from phonetic and psycholinguistic studies. It examines how these data constrain our current understanding of word production processes and highlights major challenges and open issues that should be addressed in future research.
KW  - Language production
KW  - Variation
KW  - Psycholinguistic models
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Phonetics
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1423-4
SN  - 1069-9384
SN  - 1531-5320
VL  - 25
IS  - 6
SP  - 1973
EP  - 2004
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baer-Henney, Dinah
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - van de Vijver, Ruben
T1  - The Interaction of Language-Specific and Universal Factors During the Acquisition of Morphophonemic Alternations With Exceptions
JF  - Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society
N2  - Using the artificial language paradigm, we studied the acquisition of morphophonemic alternations with exceptions by 160 German adult learners. We tested the acquisition of two types of alternations in two regularity conditions while additionally varying length of training. In the first alternation, a vowel harmony, backness of the stem vowel determines backness of the suffix. This process is grounded in substance (phonetic motivation), and this universal phonetic factor bolsters learning a generalization. In the second alternation, tenseness of the stem vowel determines backness of the suffix vowel. This process is not based in substance, but it reflects a phonotactic property of German and our participants benefit from this language-specific factor. We found that learners use both cues, while substantive bias surfaces mainly in the most unstable situation. We show that language-specific and universal factors interact in learning.
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Exceptional alternation
KW  - Acquisition
KW  - Substance
KW  - Phonotactics
KW  - Artificial language paradigm
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12209
SN  - 0364-0213
SN  - 1551-6709
VL  - 39
IS  - 7
SP  - 1537
EP  - 1569
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -