Delayed silent phoneme monitoring in adults who do and do not stutter

The phoneme monitoring task is a musical priming paradigm that demonstrates that both musicians and non-musicians have gained implicit understanding of prevalent harmonic structures. Little research has focused on implicit music learning in musicians and non-musicians. This current study aimed to investigate whether the phoneme monitoring task would identify any implicit memory differences between musicians and non-musicians. It focuses on both implicit knowledge of musical structure and implicit memory for specific musical sequences. Thirty-two musicians and non-musicians (19 female and 13 male) were asked to listen to a seven-chord sequence and decide as quickly as possible whether the final chord ended on the syllable /di/ or /du/. Overall, musicians were faster at the task, though non-musicians made more gains through the blocks of trials. Implicit memory for musical sequence was evident in both musicians and non-musicians. Both groups of participants reacted quicker to sequences that they had heard more than once but showed no explicit knowledge of the familiar sequences.

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Attention and the role of dual codes in phoneme monitoring

Journal of Memory and Language ◽

10.1016/0749-596x(90)90070-g ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 160-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Peter D. Eimas ◽

Susan B. Marcovitz Hornstein ◽

Paula Payton

Keyword(s):

Dual Codes ◽

Phoneme Monitoring

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Resolving word boundaries in spoken French: Native and non-native strategies

Applied Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1017/s0142716400006421 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 59-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Bernadette Dejean De La Batie ◽

Dianne C. Bradley

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Language Teaching ◽

Contextual Information ◽

Critical Word ◽

Lexical Analysis ◽

Word Boundaries ◽

Optimal Segmentation ◽

Phoneme Monitoring

ABSTRACTThe segmentation strategies used by native and non-native listeners of French were examined in two phoneme-monitoring experiments which required the subjects to detect the presence of word-initial /t/ in potential liaison phrases (e.g.,excellent tableau/excellent acteur) and in non-liaison phrases (e.g.,vrai tableau/vrai acteur). The essentially faultless performance of the natives suggested that the optimal segmentation routine in such phrases is primarily based on the identification of the critical word and, to a lesser extent, on the contextual information, which was more efficiently used to check the outcome of word recognition. In contrast, non-natives tended to rely on guessing strategies, not based on contextual information (contrary to the widely held language teaching recommendation), but on an incomplete acoustic–phonetic/lexical analysis of the signal.

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