

Author: Mcqueen James
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 1464-0732
Source: Language and Cognitive Processes, Vol.11, Iss.6, 1996-12, pp. : 695-699
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Abstract
The use of the word-spotting task in psycholinguistic research is summarised. When word spotting, listeners hear a list of nonsense words, some of which contain embedded real words. Their task is to detect those embedded words. The task was designed to study the segmentation of continuous speech, since it requires listeners to segment the words out of the nonsense contexts. The task has also been used to examine the process of competition between lexical hypotheses during the recognition of spoken words. A description of the task, a summary of its advantages and disadvantages, and references to those studies which have used the task are provided.
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