Research article summary (published 30 Aug 2009):

Does visual speech information affect word segmentation?

Full Abstract

We present an experiment in which we explored the extent to which visual speech information affects learners' ability to segment words from a fluent speech stream. Learners were presented with a set of sentences consisting of novel words, in which the only cues to the location of word boundaries were the transitional probabilities between syllables. They were exposed to this language through the auditory modality only, through the visual modality only (where the learners saw the speaker producing the sentences but did not hear anything), or through both the auditory and visual modalities. The learners were successful at segmenting words from the speech stream under all three training conditions. These data suggest that visual speech information has a positive effect on word segmentation performance, at least under some circumstances.

Author information

Author/s: Sell, Andrea J (AJ); Kaschak, Michael P (MP);

Affiliation: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA. asell(-atsign-)psy.fsu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Journal: Memory & cognition (Mem Cognit), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Sep; vol 37 (issue 6) : pp 889-94

Dates: Created 2009/08/14; Completed 2009/10/19;

PMID: 19679867, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/19/2009, IMS Date: )

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Attention Humans Lipreading Phonetics Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics Reading Semantics Speech Perception Verbal Learning

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