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Spoken Words in Sentence Contexts

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Listeners sometimes have the impression that they know exactly which word a speaker is going to say next. However real such observations are, they are the exception rather than the rule. More than forty years of research has shown that recognizing spoken words is not a guessing game. Normally, word recognition is an extremely fast and efficient process that rarely reaches conscious awareness. Fluent speech is uttered at a rate of two to three words per second, and an adult language user has a mental lexicon in which the knowledge of about 30 000 to 50 000 words is stored (Aitchison, 1994). This implies that a listener has about one third of a second to select one word from this huge mental data base.

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Zwitserlood, P. (1998). Spoken Words in Sentence Contexts. In: Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97734-3_3

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97734-3_3

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-97736-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-97734-3

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

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