Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops

This study explores processing characteristics of a glottal stop in Maltese which occurs both as a phoneme and as an epenthetic stop for vowel-initial words. Experiment 1 shows that its hyperarticulation is not necessarily mapped onto an underlying form, although listeners may interpret it as underl...

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Autores principales:	Holger Mitterer, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:080efe88dec94ca1a2aff6f848e377412021-11-25T06:19:32ZGlottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops1932-6203https://doaj.org/article/080efe88dec94ca1a2aff6f848e377412021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8604299/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This study explores processing characteristics of a glottal stop in Maltese which occurs both as a phoneme and as an epenthetic stop for vowel-initial words. Experiment 1 shows that its hyperarticulation is not necessarily mapped onto an underlying form, although listeners may interpret it as underlying at a later processing stage. Experiment 2 shows that listeners’ experience with a particular speaker’s use of a glottal stop exclusively as a phoneme does not modulate competition patterns accordingly. Not only are vowel-initial words activated by [ʔ]-initial forms, but /ʔ/-initial words are also activated by vowel-initial forms, suggesting that lexical access is not constrained by an initial acoustic mismatch that involves a glottal stop. Experiment 3 reveals that the observed pattern is not generalizable to an oral stop /t/. We propose that glottal stops have a special status in lexical processing: it is prosodic in nature to be licensed by the prosodic structure.Holger MittererSahyang KimTaehong ChoPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Holger Mitterer Sahyang Kim Taehong Cho Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
description	This study explores processing characteristics of a glottal stop in Maltese which occurs both as a phoneme and as an epenthetic stop for vowel-initial words. Experiment 1 shows that its hyperarticulation is not necessarily mapped onto an underlying form, although listeners may interpret it as underlying at a later processing stage. Experiment 2 shows that listeners’ experience with a particular speaker’s use of a glottal stop exclusively as a phoneme does not modulate competition patterns accordingly. Not only are vowel-initial words activated by [ʔ]-initial forms, but /ʔ/-initial words are also activated by vowel-initial forms, suggesting that lexical access is not constrained by an initial acoustic mismatch that involves a glottal stop. Experiment 3 reveals that the observed pattern is not generalizable to an oral stop /t/. We propose that glottal stops have a special status in lexical processing: it is prosodic in nature to be licensed by the prosodic structure.
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title	Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
title_short	Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
title_full	Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
title_fullStr	Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
title_full_unstemmed	Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
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Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops

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