Spoken Language Processing

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The author has spent a large part of his research career studying spoken language processing in bilinguals. Here, the author showed evidence for a number of effects that occur when guest words are recognized in bilingual speech, such as a language phonetic effect, a phonotactic effect, an interlanguage homophonic status effect, and a base-language effect.

🔑 Key Findings

• In this chapter, he first gives a brief overview of the stages involved in speech perception and comprehension; that is, how the listener goes from the acoustic wave all the way to the interpretative representation.
• He then describes a number of studies he undertook that concern primarily the processing of bilingual mixed speech.
• The research deals with the gender marking effect (late bilinguals appear to be largely insensitive to gender congruency and incongruency), the base-language effect (in normal bilingual discourse, base‐language units – i.e.

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