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May 14, 2026The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Acoustic distinctiveness in speech processing of homophones

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ACAdam A. CutterMKMatthew C. Kelley

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Overview

Randomized trial compares duration and acoustic distinctiveness in spoken word recognition tasks, indicating their roles in homophone disambiguation.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore the role of acoustic distinctiveness and duration in spoken word recognition of homophones.
  • Analyzed response time data from the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision dataset.
  • Compared the effects of duration and acoustic distinctiveness on response times.
  • Focused on participants' spoken word recognition tasks involving homophones.
  • Higher relative frequency homophones exhibited significant durational differences.
  • Acoustic distinctiveness correlated highly with duration, affecting response times.
  • Data suggest that listeners may actively use these acoustic cues for homophone disambiguation.

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Cutter et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a05677ca550a87e60a1f9b2https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0041314
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