@inproceedings{472c231700d14cd7b68960c43b6abd23,
title = "Phonetic variation and the recognition of words with pronunciation variants",
abstract = "Studies on the effects of pronunciation variants on spoken word recognition have seemingly contradictory results - some find support for a lexical representation that contains a frequent variant, others, an infrequent (but idealized) variant. We argue that this paradox is resolved by appealing to the phonetics of the overall word. In two phoneme categorization studies, we examined the categorization of the initial sounds of words that contain either tap or [t]. Listeners identified the initial sound of items along a voiced-voiceless continuum (e,g, bottom-pottom, produced with word-medial [t] or tap). No preference for word-forming responses for either variant was found. But, a bias toward voiced responses for words with [t] was found. We suggest this reflects a categorization bias dependent on speaking style, and claim that the difference in responses to words with different variants is best attributed to the phonetic composition of the word, not to a particular pronunciation variant.",
keywords = "lexical representation, phoneme categorization, phonetic variation, pronunciation variation, speech perception",
author = "Meghan Sumner and Chigusa Kurumada and Gafter, {Roey J.} and Marisa Casillas",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} CogSci 2013.All rights reserved.; 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013 ; Conference date: 31-07-2013 Through 03-08-2013",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "American English",
series = "Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013",
pages = "3486--3491",
editor = "Markus Knauff and Natalie Sebanz and Michael Pauen and Ipke Wachsmuth",
booktitle = "Cooperative Minds",
}