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Baus, Cristina; Costa, Albert; Carreiras, Manuel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
In three experiments, we explore the effects of phonological properties such as neighbourhood density and frequency on speech production in Spanish. Specifically, we assess the reliability of the recent observation made by Vitevitch and Stamer (2006), according to which the neighbourhood effect in Spanish has a reverse polarity to that observed in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speech, Oral Language, Native Speakers
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Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Anton-Mendez, Ines; Roelstraete, Bjorn; Costa, Albert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Lexical bias is the tendency for phonological errors to form existing words at a rate above chance. This effect has been observed in experiments and corpus analyses in Germanic languages, but S. del Viso, J. M. Igoa, and J. E. Garcia-Albea (1991) found no effect in a Spanish corpus study. Because lexical bias plays an important role in the debate…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Lexicology, Bias, Spanish