Articulatory consequences of prediction during comprehension

Drake, Eleanor; Schaeffler, Sonja; Corley, Martin

Abstract

It has been proposed that speech-motor activation observed during comprehension may, in part, reflect involvement of the speech-motor system in the top-down simulation of upcoming material [14]. In the current study we employed an automated approach to the analysis of ultrasound tongue imaging in order to investigate whether comprehension-elicited effects are observable at an articulatory-output level.
We investigated whether and how lexical predictions affect speech-motor output. Effects were found at a relatively early point during the pre-acoustic phase of articulation, and did not appear to be predicated upon the nature of the phonological-overlap between predicted and named items. In these respects effects related to comprehension-elicited predictions appear to differ in nature from those observed in production and perception experiments.

Citation

Drake, E., Schaeffler, S., & Corley, M. (2015). Articulatory consequences of prediction during comprehension. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), ICPhS Proceedings 2015

• Conference Name: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
• Start Date: Aug 10, 2015
• End Date: Aug 14, 2015
• Acceptance Date: May 6, 2015
• Publication Date: Aug 3, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 20, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 24, 2018
• Publisher: International Phonetics Association
• Series Title: ICPhS Proceedings
• Series ISSN: 241-0669
• Edition: 18th
• Book Title: ICPhS Proceedings 2015
• Chapter Number: n/a
• ISBN: 978-0-85261-941-4
• Keywords: Dynamic ultrasound tongue imaging, predictive coding, comprehension, production
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1186300
• Publisher URL: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/proceedings.html