Bruno De Cara|Usha Goswami
Similarity relations among spoken words: The special status of rimes in English
University College London|University College London
paper presents analysis distribution phonological similarity relations among monosyllabic spoken words english differs classical analyses phonological neighborhood density eg luce pisoni 1998 assuming phonological neighbors equal rather assumed phonological lexicon psycholinguistic structure accordingly addition considering number phonological neighbors given word becomes important consider nature neighbors one type neighbor dominant neighborhood density effects may reflect levels segmental representation phoneme particularly prior literacy statistical analyses nature phonological neighborhoods terms rime neighbors eg hatcat consonant neighbors eg hathit lead neighbors eg hatham thus performed monosyllabic words celex corpus 4086 words results show phonological neighbors rime neighbors eg hatcat english similar patterns found corpus words ageofacquisition ratings available analyzed resultant database used tool controlling selecting stimuli role lexical neighborhoods phonological development speech processing examined