@article {332,
	title = {Dutch listeners{\textquoteright} processing of word-final voicing in English},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen},
	address = {Nijmegen, The Netherlands},
	abstract = {<p>Whereas Dutch has voiced and voiceless obstruents, only voiceless obstruents occur in word-final position. In a series of experiments we investigated Dutch listeners{\textquoteright} processing of the voice distinction in word-final position, and its use for the recognition of words in English. In a categorization experiment Dutch and English participants categorized /b/-/p/, /d/-/t/, /z/-/s/, and /v/-/f/, in nonword-initial and -final position. Dutch listeners were found to categorize voiced and voiceless obstruents in word-final position as accurately as in word-initial position, and as accurately as English listeners. To investigate to which extent Dutch listeners use this ability for the recognition of words, English words with an obstruent in word-final position were recorded in two ways: unaltered, and with final voiced consonants replaced with voiceless ones and vice versa. Thus {\textquoteright}globe{\textquoteright} became {\textquoteright}glope{\textquoteright}, and {\textquoteright}cheap{\textquoteright} became {\textquoteright}cheab{\textquoteright}. The replacement of final consonants did not result in existing words, but in so-called {\textquoteright}near-words{\textquoteright}. Real words and near-words were presented to Dutch and English participants in a categorization experiment. Dutch listeners were found to rely more on lexical cues than English listeners: Dutch listeners gave more {\textquoteright}b{\textquoteright} responses to the final consonant in {\textquoteright}glope{\textquoteright} and more {\textquoteright}p{\textquoteright} responses to {\textquoteright}cheab{\textquoteright} than English listeners. When the same items were presented in an auditory lexical decision task, Dutch listeners misjudged the near-words as real words more often than English listeners, again relying on the lexicon. To investigate how strongly near-words activate the real word, the same items were used as auditory primes in a bimodal priming experiment, with the real words as visual targets. For English listeners, near-words did not prime real words. For Dutch listeners, {\textquoteright}glope{\textquoteright} primed {\textquoteright}globe{\textquoteright} as strongly as {\textquoteright}globe{\textquoteright} did. {\textquoteright}Cheab{\textquoteright}, however, did not prime {\textquoteright}cheap{\textquoteright}. Thus Dutch listeners were tolerant of incorrect devoicing, but intolerant of incorrect voicing of word-final obstruents.</p>
},
	author = {Mirjam Broersma}
}
