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AUTHOR
Nadège Doignon
Illusory conjunctions in French: The nature of sublexical units in visual word recognition
The respective influence of orthographic redundancy (Seidenberg, 1987) and syllable boundaries (Rapp, 1992) on reading units in French was tested in three experiments, using the illusory conjunction paradigm (Prinzmetal, Treiman, & Rho, 1986). Bigram boundaries were defined according to bigram frequencies. The data showed that the syllable effect was attenuated or cancelled when syllable boundaries did not coincide with bigram boundaries. Reading units were defined by syllable and orthographic information. The implications of such findings for the dual route theory and the PDP model are discussed.
The nature of the syllabic neighbourhood effect in French
International audience; We investigated whether and how sublexical units such as phonological syllables mediate access to the lexicon in French visual word recognition. To do so, two lexical decision task (LDT) experiments examined the nature of the syllabic neighbourhood effect. In Experiments 1a and b, the number of higher frequency syllabic neighbours was manipulated while controlling for the first bigram. The results failed to show a pure syllabic neighbourhood effect. In Experiments 2a and b, syllabic neighbourhood and bigram frequency were factorially manipulated. The interaction showed that the syllabic neighbourhood effect was inhibitory when bigram frequency was high, whereas it wa…
Les enfants en cours d'apprentissage de la lecture perçoivent-ils la syllabe à l'écrit?
L'objectif de cette recherche etait de tester si les apprentis lecteurs (6-7 a 7-8 ans) et les lecteurs debutants (8-9 a 10-11 ans) percoivent les unites syllabiques dans les mots ecrits. Le paradigme des conjonctions illusoires a ete utilise parce qu'il permet de determiner les unites infralexicales identifiees dans les premieres etapes de traitement des stimuli ecrits. Deux experiences ont ete conduites chez les enfants de la premiere (6-7 ans) a la derniere annee d'acquisition de la lecture (10-11 ans). Les resultats ont montre que les enfants percoivent les syllabes dans des suites de lettres des la fin de la premiere annee d'apprentissage de la lecture. La perception de ces unites resu…