Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition

Nicole Macher, Badr M. Abdullah, Harm Brouwer, Dietrich Klakow


Abstract
Theories and models of spoken word recognition aim to explain the process of accessing lexical knowledge given an acoustic realization of a word form. There is consensus that phonological and semantic information is crucial for this process. However, there is accumulating evidence that orthographic information could also have an impact on auditory word recognition. This paper presents two models of spoken word recognition that instantiate different hypotheses regarding the influence of orthography on this process. We show that these models reproduce human-like behavior in different ways and provide testable hypotheses for future research on the source of orthographic effects in spoken word recognition.
Anthology ID:
2021.eacl-srw.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
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April
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc, Madhumita Sushil, Ece Takmaz, Eneko Agirre
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
16–22
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-srw.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-srw.3
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Cite (ACL):
Nicole Macher, Badr M. Abdullah, Harm Brouwer, and Dietrich Klakow. 2021. Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 16–22, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition (Macher et al., EACL 2021)
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