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Explore the mechanisms of lexical access during continuous speech processing in this comprehensive lecture that examines how listeners identify and retrieve words from their mental lexicon in real-time spoken language comprehension. Delve into experimental methodologies and research findings that reveal the temporal dynamics of word recognition, including how acoustic-phonetic information maps onto lexical representations and how contextual factors influence lexical activation patterns. Learn about eye-tracking studies, gating experiments, and other psycholinguistic techniques used to investigate the millisecond-by-millisecond process of spoken word recognition. Examine theoretical models of lexical access including cohort theory, TRACE model, and neighborhood activation model, while considering how factors such as word frequency, phonological similarity, and semantic context affect the speed and accuracy of word identification. Discover how research in this field contributes to our understanding of human language processing and has implications for automatic speech recognition systems, language disorders, and second language acquisition.
