New evidence for phonological processing during visual word recognition: The case of Arabic.

Recent masked priming studies suggest that complex words are rapidly segmented into potential morphological constituents during initial visual word recognition. Much of this evidence involves affixation or other formally regular operations, leaving open the question of whether these effects rely heavily on the identification of a closed-class affix or other formal regularity. In two masked priming experiments with English transparent and opaque bimorphemic compound primes consisting solely of open-class morphemes, we find significant constituent priming, but no significant priming for purely orthographic overlap. We conclude that masked morphological priming generalizes across word-formation types to include compounds with no affix or other regular form. These results provide new evidence for across-the-board morphological-level segmentation during visual word recognition and for morpheme-based compound processing.

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Pseudohomophone effects provide evidence of early lexico-phonological processing in visual word recognition

Human Brain Mapping ◽

10.1002/hbm.20643 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 30 (7) ◽

pp. 1977-1989 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Mario Braun ◽

Florian Hutzler ◽

Johannes C. Ziegler ◽

Michael Dambacher ◽

Arthur M. Jacobs

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Phonological Processing ◽

Visual Word

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Orthographic and phonological contributions to flanker effects

Attention Perception & Psychophysics ◽

10.3758/s13414-020-02023-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 82 (7) ◽

pp. 3571-3580 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christophe Cauchi ◽

Bernard Lété ◽

Jonathan Grainger

Keyword(s):

Word Recognition ◽

Visual Word Recognition ◽

Phonological Processing ◽

Masked Priming ◽

Visual Word ◽

Central Target ◽

Priming Paradigm ◽

Target Words

Abstract Does phonology contribute to effects of orthographically related flankers in the flankers task? In order to answer this question, we implemented the flanker equivalent of a pseudohomophone priming manipulation that has been widely used to demonstrate automatic phonological processing during visual word recognition. In Experiment 1, central target words were flanked on each side by either a pseudohomophone of the target (e.g., roze rose roze), an orthographic control pseudoword (rone rose rone), or an unrelated pseudoword (mirt rose mirt). Both the pseudohomophone and the orthographic control conditions produced faster and more accurate responses to central targets, but performance in these two conditions did not differ significantly. Experiment 2 tested the same stimuli in a masked priming paradigm and replicated the standard finding in French that pseudohomophone primes produce significantly faster responses to target words than orthographic control primes. Therefore, contrary to its impact on masked priming, phonology does not contribute to effects of flanker relatedness, which would appear to be driven primarily by orthographic overlap.

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