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Are syllables phonological units in visual word recognition?
Manuel CarreirasManuel PereaCarlos J. ÁLvarezsubject
Linguistics and Languagemedia_common.quotation_subjectSpeech recognitionExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyPhonologyLanguage and LinguisticsEducationReading (process)Lexical decision taskSyllabic verseSyllablePsychologyControl (linguistics)Priming (psychology)Word (group theory)media_commondescription
A number of studies have shown that syllables play an important role in visual word recognition in Spanish. We report three lexical decision experiments with a masked priming technique that examined whether syllabic effects are phonological or orthographic in nature. In all cases, primes were nonwords. In Experiment 1, latencies to CV words were faster when primes and targets shared the first syllable (ju.nas-JU.NIO) than when they shared the initial letters but not the first syllable (jun.tu-JU.NIO). In Experiment 2, this syllabic overlap could be phonological+orthographical (vi.rel-VI.RUS) or just phonological (bi.rel-VI.RUS). A syllable priming effect was found for CV words in both the phonological+orthographical and the phonological condition. In Experiment 3 we compared a “phonological-syllable” condition (bi.rel-VI.RUS) with two control conditions (fi.rel-VI.RUS and vir.ga-VI.RUS). We found faster latencies for the phonological-syllabic condition than for the control conditions. These results sugg...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-06-01 | Language and Cognitive Processes |