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SUBMITTER: Lawyer LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6424519 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Language, cognition and neuroscience 20170427 9
This study examines the relationship between patterns of variation and speech perception using two English prefixes: 'in-'/'im-' and 'un-'. In natural speech, 'in-' varies due to an underlying process of phonological assimilation, while 'un-' shows a pattern of surface variation, assimilating before labial stems. In a go/no-go lexical decision experiment, subjects were presented a set of 'mispronounced' stimuli in which the prefix nasal was altered (replacing [n] with [m], or vice versa), in add ...[more]