Word Recognition Flashcards
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COHORT’s assumptions (per TRACE)
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- Uses first sound or first CV to determine words in initial candidate set (“cohort”).
- Eliminates words from cohort as successive phonemes arrive.
- Phoneme-to-word inhibition
- Words can also be eliminated based on semantic content, but initial cohort is determined by acoustics.
- Word recognition occurs when there is a single item ileft n candidate set.
- Word recognition can influence phoneme identification after the word has been recognized.
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COHORT person
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Marslen-Wilson, circa 1980
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Good evidence for COHORT
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In gating, the uniqueness point usually matches the participant’s acceptance/certainty point.
Confirms COHORT’s prediction that words are recognized when just one item remains in cohort.
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COHORT’s problems (per TRACE)
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- Cannot cope with distortion or underspecified onsets
- No way to recover items that were removed from cohort
- Want to reject “present” for pleasant but accept “blacelet” for bracelet.
- Assumes listeners always knows where a word’s onset is.
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COHORT’s three stages of word recognition
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- Access (when the bottom-up perceptual input first activates lexical representations)
- Selection (narrowing down the activation candidate set)
- Integration (retrieve and integrate semantic/syntactic details)
COHORT
- accesses all items consistent with input and
- evaluates the multiple words in parallel,
- using information as it becomes available.
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COHORT’s segmentation strategy
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Segmentation is implicit.
Utterance onset marks onset of first word.
Offset of each word marks onset of next word.
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Controversial features of TRACE
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Spatializing time, so lots of units are duplicated.
Assuming interactive effects between layers.
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Activation in TRACE
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It’s continuous, based on how acoustic/phonetic features map onto lexical representations.
Supports partial activation rhymes because they are bottom-up matches.
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Interactivity in TRACE
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- Top-down connections from lexical items to phonemes.
- The top-down connections from phonemes to feature detectors are usually disabled.
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Competition in TRACE
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Temporally overlapping units in phonemic and lexical layers inhibit one one another.
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How TRACE models time
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Units in phoneme and lexical layers are repeated every few time slices.
It spatializes time.
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Coarticulation in TRACE
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Input phoneme’s features are spread over 11 steps, but the centers of adjacent input phonemes are 6 steps apart.
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TRACE’S acoustic features
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- Acute
- Burst
- Consonantal
- Diffuse
- Power
- Vocalic
- Voiced
Each with nine levels of activation, each with a feature detector at every timestep.
So there would be Voice0, Voice1, …, Voice8 feature detector units at each step.
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Shortlist’s main idea
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- At each phoneme time-step, a shortlist of matching words is generated
- The words in the shortlists that overlap each other compete with each other via lateral inhibition
- Separates lexical access (shortlist formation based on match scores) from competition (overlapping words across the lists have to compete with each other)
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Shortlist’s scoring system
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- 1 point for each matching phoneme
- -3 points for each mismatching phoneme
- Strong mismatch penalty will keep mostly onset-matching items in the shortlist.
- Rhymes will only appear in the list
- when shortlist is sparse and
- when there have been multiple matching phonemes to overcome initial mismatch.
- There is a shortlist at each phoneme timestep, consisting of words with top match scores.
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Simple recurrent networks
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- Learning network
- Layers for input units, hidden units, context units, output units
- Context units are exact copy of last time steps hidden units
- Hidden units combine information from input and previous state.
- Interactive in the sense that the context interacts with the input units.
- Recurrence is self feedback
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Overtraining in SRNs
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- If you train an SRN until error asymptotes, it will not show rhyme effects
- If you train until each target reaches from recognition threshold, rhyme effects will remain intact.
- Adults learning novel neighborhoods look like these SRNs (Magnuson et al. 2003)
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Localist representations
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One unit for each word.
Competing units compete as their activation changes over time.
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Distributed representations
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- All items are represented by a shared set of units.
- Competition shows up in the blend of hidden representations.
- Makes predictions priming effects of ambiguous inputs activates a blend of competitors.
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Distributed Cohort Model
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SRN but two output layers: phonological and lexical semantics
Distributed representation of phonological and semantic features in the hidden units
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Cross-Modal Semantic Priming
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- Castle-candy-sweet priming
- Castle activates its cohort (including candy) which in turn activate semantic cohorts (including sweet).
- Works for cohorts but not for rhymes
- Cohorts don’t get much inhibition during start of word
- When rhymes finally have perceptual support, the onset-cohort are strongly inhibiting them
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Naming / Repetition / Shadowing
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- Play a wordlike stimulus. Listener repeats word.
- Measure accuracy and response latency.
- Word frequency and neighborhood density influence outcome measures.
- Unlike real recognition
- bc it’s post-perceptual
- bc listener may pay close attention to the speech sounds (without semantic processing).
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Lexical Decision
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- Play a wordlike stimulus. Listener decides whether stimulus is a word or not.
- Measure accuracy and response latency.
- Sensitive to
- word frequency (more false rejects of less common words)
- neighborhood density (probably, slower to make decision when stimulus overlaps with a lot of words).
- Unlike real recognition bc
- it’s a post-perceptual judgment about stimulus.
- Also a listener can make decision w/o knowing meaning of word (I can recognize tamp but I don’t know what it means).
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Gating
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- Early gates have a wide variety of guess (many words activated)
- Uniquess point: When there is only one completion of a word
- Recognition point: When correct guessing occurs
- Recognition can precede uniqueness, especially for higher frequeny words
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DAS similarity
* Neighborhood consists of all words that differ by Deletion, Addition, or Substitution of just one phoneme
* Treat rhymes as just as neighborly as cohorts.
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Cohort similarity
Neighborhood consists of all words that share first 1-2 phonemes
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Graded similarity metric
* Neighborhood based on phonetic features
* cat/pat (1 feature diff) more similar than cab/bat (2 feature diff)
* bull/veer are neighbors (3 feature diff)
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Frequency-Weighted Neighborhood Probability
* **Frequency weighted similarity score**: Similarity of candidate to input times candidate's log frequency: FWSS(t,x) = f(t) \* S(t,x)
* Neighborhood probability is a candidate's FWSS divided by sum of FWSS of all other words in lexicon
* For DAS similarity, S(t,x) is 1 or 0, so it reduces to FWNP(t) = f(t) / ∑ f(w)
* Proportion of neighborhood frequency contributed by the word t
* Frequency-weighting applies a prior probability
* If 2 words matched on neighborhood size, more frequent one is easier to recognize
* If 2 words matched on frequency, one in less dense neighborhood is easier to recognize
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Principles of spoken word recognition
* Multiple activation: Multiple candidate words are activated
* Activation of candidate word is based on
* Similarity: degree of fit between speech and candidate
* Priors: prior probability of word
* Compeition: Competition among candidates leads to recognition
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How to test model against data
* Establish linking hypothesis between model and data
* Figure out if success/failure is due to theory, implemenation (input representation, number of units, etc), model parameters, or linking hypothesis
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How to model frequency in TRACE
1. Post-lexical (adjust choice rule that transforms activations)
2. Resting activations
3. Manipulate phoneme-to-word weights (effect of frequency is proportional to amount of word heard)
All very similar results (Dahan et al., 2001) but bottom-up weight scheme had best fit to data.
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Arguments for feedback (as in TRACE)
* We see lexical effects on sublexical tasks
* Makes model robust to noise
* Implicitly encodes sublexical probabilities (diphone etc)
* TRACE more accurate and faster if feedback on
* Top-down knowledge can guide perceptual recalibration
* Interactive activation systems can perform optimal Bayesian inference
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Arguments against feedback (in TRACE)
* Lexical effects can be captured if perceptual and lexical info integrated postlexically
* No way to increase information in raw signal, so best bottom-up signal is best guess
* Predicts perceptual hallucinations
* But listeners to show lexically influence perceptions, like phoneme restoration or failing to recognize some mispronunciations
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Magnuson, Dixon, Tanenhaus, and Aslin, 2007
* Eyetracking
* Demonstrated competition effects even though competitors were not displayed
* Manipulated frequency, neighborhood density (one phoneme DAS), and cohort density
* High frequency: Early, continuous facilitating effect
* High cohort density: Early, continuous inhibitory effect
* High neighbor density: Early facilitating, late inhibitory effect (rhymes kick in)
* Competitor set dynamically changes as word unfolds
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Dahan, Magnuson, Tanenhaus, and Hogan, 2001
* Subcategorical phonetic mismatches
* Ne(ck)t slower than ne(p)t in eyetracking
* Marslen-Wilson and Warren, 1994, found no RT difference for these kind of data.
* Concluded part of "neck" could not be inhibiting "net"
* Here, eyetracking data shows the predicted difference.
* Compatible with lateral inhibition
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Phonotactics in TRACE
Implicit
More frequently a phoneme or n-phone appears in TRACE lexicon, the more top-down feedback it gets
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Hannagan, et al., 2013
* Implemented an activation model inspired by TRACE but without the spatial duplication of time
* Used string kernels
* Achieves spatial invariance for visual word recognitions, so generalize to time.
* Layers
* Input phonemes over time
* 1-Phone and 2-Phone levels
* Word level (lateral inhibition here)
* /d/o/g/ activates /do/, /dg/, /og/ but not /gd/
* Proof of concept
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Temporal problems for spoken word recognition models
1. Temporal order over phonemes: dog vs. god
2. Multi-token independence problem: do vs. dude
3. Temporal order over words: man bites dog vs. dog bites man
4. Segmentation problem
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Phenomena simulated by TRACE
* Lexical effects
* Main Ganong effect: Xlug as /p/, Xlood as /b/
* Time pressure eliminates effect
* Late lexical effects (targeX as /t/). Context has stronger effect for ambiguous phonemes late in word.
* No lexical effects for unambiguous phonemes
* Phoneme monitoring data
* No lexical effect on RT for word-initial targets (respond when you hear word starting with /g/)
* Lexical effect on RT for later targets (faster on secreT vs. gulduT)
* Lexical conspiracy: Phonotactic effects from lexical statistics
* Xluly (X in p-t continuum). Interprets as "Xl" early on then shifts to "tl" by end, a phonotactically illegal sequence.
* Simulating cohort and rhyme competition in eyetracking
* Sensitivity to subcategorical mismatches
* Lexical basis for segmentation
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The Shortlist Models
* Shortlist A, Merge, Shortlist B
* Differentiates time-specific tokens and time-invariant words
* Generates a shortlist of tokens and lexical lattice on the fly
* How could lattice be wired on the fly?
* Core theoretical Assumptions
* Prelexical to Lexical paths are feedforward only
* Candidate selection is based on matching and mismatching information
* Implicit segmentation via competition among candidates
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similarity in neighborhood activation model
* Global similarity
* Static set of competitors
* Recognition RT related frequency-weighted neighborhood probability
* More neighbors, harder.
* More frequent neighbors, harder.
* Naming, decision, recognition in noise allow global similarity to matter
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why input to spoken word models should not be phoneme units
They overlap too much.
Phoneme certainty is never 100% at any one point in time.
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some ways to make non-phoneme input to word recognition models
1. Fake acoustics
2. Real acoustics
3. Simulate output of prelexical processing
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Shortlist B
* Norris and McQueen 2007
* Most radical move: Abandons activation entirely
* What is an activation, anyway?
* No inhibition among competing hypotheses
* Competition reflected in differing path probabilities
* Assumes word recognition is optimal, in a Bayesian sense
* As ambiguity increases, prior beliefs matter more.
* Priors require us to encode frequency.
* Likelihood functions are more important than similarity metrics
