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Intro text goes here. It has been shown that not all phonological features are equally relevant for word recognition (Martin & Peperkamp, 2015).
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What is the source of such asymmetries? Given that word recognition primarily happens in the auditory modality, a natural source of this observation could be low-level acoustic differences between the features. It is likely that the voicing feature be less salient from an acoustic point of view than say the manner feature. Another possible source for this differences might be lexical knowledge of the listeners. Indeed, knowing that your language exploits a certain feature more than another might bias you to listen for such featural information more attentively during speech perception.
The present study proposes a two-axed approach to study the sources of asymmetrical featural importance in word recognition. First, we exposit and build upon a measure of lexical organization known as functional load. We then report an experiment that tested prelexical perceptual biases. We focus our discussion on the possibility that listeners combine multiple sources of information when performing speech perception, including bottom-up acoustic biases and top-down lexical knowledge.
