Table 2.
Stimuli used in the Lexical garden path task (in International Phonetic Alphabet; IPA)
| Set | Voiced Word |
Voiceless Word |
Overlapping phonemes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spelling | IPA | Spelling | IPA | ||
|
| |||||
| 1 | bumpercar | bΛmpәrkar | pumpernickel | pΛmpәrnɪkәl | 5 |
| 2 | barricade | bærəkeɪd | parakeet | pærəkit | 4 |
| 3 | blanket | blæЛkɪt | plankton | plæЛktən | 4 |
| 4 | beachball | bitʃbɔl | peach-pit | pitʃpɪt | 2 |
| 5 | billboard | bɪlbɔrd | pill-box | pɪlbɒks | 3 |
Note: underlined portions marks phonemic overlap between the words in a pair; bolded portions mark offsets