Preceding syllables are necessary for the accent advantage effect

摘要

The accent advantage effect in phoneme monitoring-faster responses to a target phoneme at the beginning of an L+H*-accented word than to a target phoneme at the beginning of an unaccented word-is viewed as a product of listeners' predictive capabilities Cutler (1976). Percept. Psychophys. 20(1), 55-60. However, previous studies have not established what information listeners use to form these predictions Cutler (1987). Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 84-87; Cutler and Darwin (1981). Percept. Psychophys. 29(3), 217-224. This article presents evidence that at least the information in the syllable immediately preceding a target phoneme is necessary to cue the predictive attention allocation that underlies the accent advantage effect.