Alan Welsh coauthored, with William D. Marslen-Wilson, a 1978 experimental study of spoken word recognition in continuous speech. The experiments compared a shadowing task, in which listeners repeated speech, with a mispronunciation detection task performed while following a written text.[ref]
Processing interactions and lexical access during word recognition in continuous speech by William D. Marslen-Wilson and Alan Welsh. Cognitive Psychology10, pp.29–63; Abstract and publisher byline
Where an altered pronunciation occurred within a word affected performance, while context influenced the tasks differently. Comparing tasks helped separate an effect of incoming sound from an effect of instructions or expectations. The work contributed to the cohort model, which treats recognition as progressive evaluation of word candidates rather than waiting for an entire utterance.[ref]
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