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Summary: Cognitive Science 27 (2003) 285298
Short communication
Lexical effects on compensation for coarticulation:
the ghost of Christmash past
James S. Magnusona,, Bob McMurrayb,
Michael K. Tanenhausb, Richard N. Aslinb
a
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Ave.,
MC 5501, New York City, NY 10027, USA
b
University of Rochester, New York, NY, USA
Received 9 September 2002; received in revised form 16 December 2002; accepted 25 December 2002
Abstract
The question of when and how bottom-up input is integrated with top-down knowledge has been
debated extensively within cognition and perception, and particularly within language processing. A
long running debate about the architecture of the spoken-word recognition system has centered on the
locus of lexical effects on phonemic processing: does lexical knowledge influence phoneme percep-
tion through feedback, or post-perceptually in a purely feedforward system? Elman and McClelland
(1988) reported that lexically restored ambiguous phonemes influenced the perception of the following
phoneme, supporting models with feedback from lexical to phonemic representations. Subsequently,
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