Lexicalizing nonadjacent dependencies.
Steven A. Berg · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2009
Previous research [e.g., McLennan et al. (submitted)] has demonstrated that listeners are sensitive to discontinuous dependencies among consonants, vowels, and syllables in nonsense words. An extension of this work was done by attempting to lexicalize nonwords containing discontinuous dependencies through a referent matching paradigm. Our attempt at lexicalization was to determine the consequences of discontinuous dependencies at the lexical rather than sublexical levels. Our findings are discussed in terms of sublexical and lexical effects of phonotactics in spoken word recognition.