@article{6d45cccc6e6f495cb644f03f524aeafe,
title = "The phonological nature of phoneme monitoring: A critique of some ambiguity studies",
abstract = "Latency to monitor for a designated initial phoneme in a sentence has been used to index momentary processing during comprehension, primarily in the study of lexically ambiguous sentences. Two experiments are reported which demonstrate that latencies are strongly affected by two properties of the word immediately preceding the target phoneme-its length and the phonological similarity of its initial phoneme to the target phoneme. Analysis of the materials used by three other phoneme monitoring studies dealing with lexical ambiguity revealed that these properties were confounded with the studies' ambiguity conditions, biasing for longer detection latencies in ambiguous Sentences. The results are discussed with respect to their implications for ambiguity research and speech perception in general.",
author = "Newman, {Jean E.} and Dell, {Gary S.}",
note = "Funding Information: A key issue in the study of language comprehension is whether all meanings of ambiguous words are processed. Upon hearing the word trunk in the sentence The old elm had a gnarled trunk, do people consider the {"}large suitcase{"} interpretation of trunk while deciding on the more appropriate meaning? The many proposals regarding the comprehension of ambiguity can be dichotomized on the basis of their answer to this question. The two-meaning hypothesis states that during comprehension all, or nearly all, of the meanings of ambiguous material are accessed and then a decision is made regarding the correct meaning. In contrast, the one-meaning hypothesis proposes that ambiguous material This research was supported in part by National Research Council of Canada Grant A8261 to F. I. M. Craik. The first author has been supported by a National Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship, and the second author, by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. The authors wish to thank W. B. Cowan for recording the stimuli used in Experiment I, and also Fergus Craik and Gall McKoon for their helpful comments on the manuscript. Requests for reprints should be sent to Jean Newman, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A 1, Canada.",
year = "1978",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/S0022-5371(78)90228-1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "359--374",
journal = "Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior",
issn = "0022-5371",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "3",
}