The perceptual filtering of predictable coarticulation in exemplar memory

dc.citation.articleNumber20en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleLaboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonologyen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber11en_US
dc.contributor.authorManker, Jonathanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-24T19:15:40Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-02-24T19:15:40Zen_US
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractExemplar models of word representations have remained ambivalent or impressionistic as to precisely what veridical auditory information is stored in individual word exemplars. Earlier models (Johnson, 1997b) suggest all perceived information was stored in memory, whereas more recent proposals (Pierrehumbert, 2002; Goldinger, 2007) suggest some degree of abstraction occurs in storing particular exemplars. Findings from the phonetic accommodation paradigm (Goldinger, 1998; Nielsen, 2011, etc.) suggest that the accumulation of new exemplars may drive the spread of sound change. At the same time, some theories of sound change suggest that perceptual biases serve as a starting point for change (Ohala, 1981, 1983). The current study investigates how perceptual biases, such as the predictability of coarticulation, can shape the contents of exemplars. The experimental results suggest that an expected phonetic alteration, such as f0 raising on vowels following voiceless consonants—a predictable coarticulatory effect—is more likely to undergo some degree of abstraction when stored in exemplar memory, whereas unexpected phonetic detail (e.g., f0 raising following voiced consonants) is more faithfully stored or maintained for longer in memory. These findings suggest perceptual biases that could shape pools of exemplars, leading to different expectations for conditioned versus unconditioned sound changes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationManker, Jonathan. "The perceptual filtering of predictable coarticulation in exemplar memory." <i>Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology,</i> 11, no. 1 (2020) Ubiquity Press: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.240.en_US
dc.identifier.digital240-5670-2-PBen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.240en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/110078en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUbiquity Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordExemplar theoryen_US
dc.subject.keyworddiscriminationen_US
dc.subject.keywordspeech perceptionen_US
dc.subject.keywordcoarticulationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsound changeen_US
dc.titleThe perceptual filtering of predictable coarticulation in exemplar memoryen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpublisher versionen_US
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