In the Words of Others: ERP Evidence of Speaker-Specific Phonological Prediction.

ABSTRACT: Prediction models usually assume that highly constraining contexts allow the pre-activation of phonological information. However, the evidence for phonological prediction is mixed and controversial. In this study, we implement a paradigm that capitalizes on the phonological errors produced by L2 speakers to investigate whether specific phonological predictions are made based on speaker identity. L1 Italian speakers were asked to read sentence fragments, after which a final word was spoken by either an L1- or an L2-accented speaker. The spoken final word could be predictable or not, depending on the sentence context. The identity of the speaker (L1- vs. L2-accented) may or may not be cued by an image of the face of the speaker. Our main analysis indicated that cueing the speaker identity wa

SUBMITTER: Sala M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12402685 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature