The influence of lexical stress and/or metrical stress on spoken word recognition was examined. Two experiments were designed to determine whether response times in lexical decision or shadowing tasks...
Words whose spellings represent regular phonemic patterns, such as mint, show advantages in naming and lexical decision tasks over words, such as pint, that have exceptional relations between orthogra...
The lexicon of a natural language understanding system that is not restricted to one single application but should be adaptable to a whole range of different tasks has to provide a flexible mechanism ...
Four experiments examined Dutch listeners' use of suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition. Isolated syllables excised from minimal stress pairs such as VOORnaam/voorNAAM could be reliabl...
Three cross-modal priming experiments examined the role of suprasegmental information in the processing of spoken words. All primes consisted of truncated spoken Dutch words. Recognition of visually p...
The lexicon of a natural language understanding system that is not restricted to one single application but should be adaptable to a whole range of different tasks has to provide a flexible mechanism ...
Speakers are regularly confronted with the choice among lexical alternatives when referring to objects, including basic-level names (e.g., car) and subordinate-level names (e.g., Beetle). Which of the...