ABSTRACT

Listeners generally detect syllables faster than phonemes in overt speech. This “syllable advantage” holds robustly for utterance-initial CV vs. C targets [Segui et al., 1981. Phoneme monitoring, syllable monitoring and lexical access. British Journal of Psychology, 72(4), 471–477]. We report a syllable advantage when monitoring inner speech. Spanish-speaking Argentinian participants presented with pictures were faster and more accurate at detecting CV than C targets at the beginning of the pictures’ names. This CV over C advantage maintained, although substantially weakened, after adding CV’ foils in CV-target trials, a manipulation logically more detrimental to CV- than C-detection. Our results converge with previous studies showing intriguing parallelisms between overt and inner speech perception and processing, supporting a restricted version of Levelt’s perceptual-loop hypothesis. We discuss what common basic units of processing could be, borrowing from the articulatory phonology framework and its proposal of a “common currency” between speakers and listeners.

摘要

在公开的语音中，听众通常比音素更快地检测音节。这种“音节优势”对于话语初始 CV 与 C 目标而言非常有效 [Segui 等，1981。音素监控、音节监控和词汇访问。英国心理学杂志，72（4），471-477]。我们报告了在监视内部时的音节优势演讲。与图片名称开头的 C 目标相比，使用图片展示的讲西班牙语的阿根廷参与者在检测 CV 方面更快、更准确。在 CV 目标试验中添加 CV' 箔后，这种 CV 优于 C 的优势得以保持，尽管显着减弱，这种操作在逻辑上对 CV- 比 C-检测更有害。我们的结果与之前的研究相一致，这些研究显示了公开和内部语音感知和处理之间有趣的并行性，支持了Levelt 感知循环假设的受限版本。我们讨论什么是通用的基本处理单元，借鉴了发音音系框架及其关于演讲者和听众之间“共同货币”的提议。