Jan 10
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Salverda/etal:2014
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In exemplar models (e.g., Goldinger, 1998; Johnson, 1997;
Pierrehumbert, 2002), stored representations of all of the instances
of words that listeners have encountered naturally encode fine-grained
phonetic detail, including speaker-specific information and
within-word coarticulation."
-> Our brains are certainly big, but the thought that we are storing
this much phonetic detail is implausible to me.

Do you think that the dot which appears every 5 trials improves the
participants focus? Is there a reason why the dot appears every 5
trials and not more or less often?

How might the reliance on a single speaker for the stimulus recordings
influence the generalizability of the findings? That is, speakers
differ in how they perform coarticulation, which means that the
anticipatory coarticulation effects observed in this study might
reflect the specific articulatory behavior of the individual speaker
rather than generalizable patterns across speakers.

On page 5, the authors claim that "because place assimilation is
arguably a special case of anticipatory coarticulation, it is not yet
known whether or not anticipatory coarticulation prior to word onset
will affect lexical access in a more general phonological
environment." In my understanding, place assimilation seems to be the
standard form of anticipatory coarticulation, so why would it not be
known whether this affects lexical access?

In experiment 1, some trials were excluded from analysis since "the
first saccade following the onset of the target word was not directed
to either the target or the associated distractor (50.6% of the
remaining data)" (pg 10).  Why was so much of the data subject to this
discrepancy and how can this be explained?

For the Analysis of Stimuli, the study uses three formant frequencies
to predict the onset of target word. In previous papers, we have seen
that a limitation with such a method is that it requires the tongue to
have dorsal movement. Does this limitation affect the reliability of
the current study?