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False memories for varying and non-varying words in American English.

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Title: False memories for varying and non-varying words in American English.
Authors: Pycha, Anne1
Source: Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. Feb2017, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p205-220. 16p. 12 Charts.
Subject Terms: *Memory, *Phonological awareness, False memory syndrome, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Mathematical models of psychology
Abstract: Certain types of variation are licenced by phonotactics. For example, the American English phoneme /t/ varies word-finally (ba[t] ∼ba[ʔ]), but not word-initially. We used a Deese–Roediger–McDermott false memory paradigm to pursue the hypothesis that, given comparable information in the speech stream, varying words (such asbat) activate less strongly than non-varying words (such astip). We presented listeners with lists of phonological neighbours, such asrat, ban, bet,etc. (neighbours ofbat), andlip, tin, type,etc. (neighbours oftip), followed by recall and recognition tasks. Results showed that participants often “remembered” the unheard wordsbatandtip,replicating previous work indicating that activation from neighbours can produce false memories. Most importantly, false memory rates were significantly lower forbatcompared totip,suggesting that the presence of phonotactic conditions for variability affected the lexical activation of a word, compared to the absence of such conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Abstract:Certain types of variation are licenced by phonotactics. For example, the American English phoneme /t/ varies word-finally (ba[t] ∼ba[ʔ]), but not word-initially. We used a Deese–Roediger–McDermott false memory paradigm to pursue the hypothesis that, given comparable information in the speech stream, varying words (such asbat) activate less strongly than non-varying words (such astip). We presented listeners with lists of phonological neighbours, such asrat, ban, bet,etc. (neighbours ofbat), andlip, tin, type,etc. (neighbours oftip), followed by recall and recognition tasks. Results showed that participants often “remembered” the unheard wordsbatandtip,replicating previous work indicating that activation from neighbours can produce false memories. Most importantly, false memory rates were significantly lower forbatcompared totip,suggesting that the presence of phonotactic conditions for variability affected the lexical activation of a word, compared to the absence of such conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
ISSN:23273798
DOI:10.1080/23273798.2016.1245425