Masked Syllable Priming of English Nouns

Schiller, Niels O.

doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2109

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“…As in Experiment 2, the target pictures were combined with words (now called primes, following the conventions in the literature), but instead of remaining in view for 850 ms, they were presented for only 50 ms and were preceded and followed by pattern masks. Several studies (Ferrand, Segui, & Grainger, 1996;Schiller, 1998Schiller, , 1999 have shown that masked phonologically related prime words facilitate phoneme selection relative to unrelated primes. Therefore, we expected the picture naming latencies to be shorter after related than unrelated prime words.…”

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Capacity demands of phoneme selection in word production: New evidence from dual-task experiments.

Cook¹,

Meyer²

2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Three dual-task experiments investigated the capacity demands of phoneme selection in picture naming. On each trial, participants named a target picture (Task 1) and carried out a tone discrimination task (Task 2). To vary the time required for phoneme selection, the authors combined the targets with phonologically related or unrelated distractor pictures (Experiment 1) or words, which were clearly visible (Experiment 2) or masked (Experiment 3). When pictures or masked words were presented, the tone discrimination and picture naming latencies were shorter in the related condition than in the unrelated condition, which indicates that phoneme selection requires central processing capacity. However, when the distractor words were clearly visible, the facilitatory effect was confined to the picture naming latencies. This pattern arose because the visible related distractor words facilitated phoneme selection but slowed down speech monitoring processes that had to be completed before the response to the tone could be selected.

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Capacity demands of phoneme selection in word production: New evidence from dual-task experiments.

Cook¹,

Meyer²

2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…In word naming, Ferrand et al (1996) showed a syllable congruency effect in French at a 43-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), but this effect was not replicated by Brand et al, (2003). Similarly, Ferrand, Segui, and Humphreys (1997) observed a syllable congruency effect in English when the SOA was 43 ms, but these data were not replicated subsequently (Schiller, 1999(Schiller, , 2000. Moreover, the syllable congruency effect was observed neither in Dutch (Schiller, 1998) nor in Spanish (Schiller, Costa, & Colomé, 2002).…”

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Syllabic priming in lexical decision and naming tasks: The syllable congruency effect re-examined in French.

Chetail¹,

Mathey²

2009

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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This study investigated the role of the syllable in visual recognition of French words. The syllable congruency procedure was combined with masked priming in the lexical-decision task (Experiments 1 and 3) and the naming task (Experiment 2). Target words were preceded by a nonword prime sharing the first three letters that either corresponded to the syllable (congruent condition), or not (incongruent condition). When primes were displayed for 67 ms, similar results were found in both the lexical decision and the naming tasks. Consonant-vowel targets such as BA.LANCE were recognised more rapidly in the congruent condition than in the incongruent and control conditions, while consonant-vowel-consonant targets such as BAL.CON were recognised more rapidly in the congruent and incongruent conditions than in the control condition. When a 43-ms SOA was used in the lexical-decision task, no significant priming effect was obtained. The results are discussed in an interactive-activation model incorporating syllable units.Keywords: syllable congruency, lexical decision, naming, masked priming, CV versus CVC syllables In recent decades, numerous studies have shown that phonological information is automatically activated during visual word recognition (see Frost, 1998, for a review). Masked priming (Forster & Davis, 1984) is a widely used paradigm to study phonological effects (e.g., Frost, Ahissar, Gotesman, & Tayeb, 2003;Grainger, Diependaele, Spinelli, Ferrand, & Farioli, 2003;Lukatela, Frost, & Turvey, 1998;Pollatsek, Perea, & Carreiras, 2005;Rastle & Brysbaert, 2006;Shen & Forster, 1999). Besides avoiding strategic processes from participants (Forster, 1998), this paradigm has made it possible to demonstrate that phonological effects are not confounded with orthographic activation (e.g., Frost et al., 2003;Lukatela et al., 1998). Moreover, phonological effects were obtained in tasks that did not involve postlexical phonological units, suggesting that these phonological effects arose from prelexical and lexical processes rather than articulatory processes (e.g., Lukatela et al., 1998).To take into account robust phonological effects, models of visual word recognition have to include a phonological coding of visual inputs. This feature requires determining which phonological units are activated during silent reading. In languages with clear syllable boundaries like Spanish, data have shown that syllables are involved in the processing of polysyllabic words (e.g., Alvarez, Carreiras, & Perea, 2004;Carreiras, Alvarez, & de Vega, 1993;Carreiras & Perea, 2002;Perea & Carreiras, 1998). In French also, there is evidence for the activation of syllable units during lexical access (e.g., Carreiras, Ferrand, Grainger, & Perea, 2005;Doignon & Zagar, 2005;Mathey & Zagar, 2002;Mathey, Zagar, Doignon, & Seigneuric, 2006). However, the results are less consistent than in Spanish since some studies failed to obtain syllabic effects during the processing of French words (e.g., Brand, Rey, & Peereman, 2003;Rouibah & Taft, 2001). To account...

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“…A series of cross-linguistic studies used a syllable priming task to identify the syllable as a relevant unit in speech production (for Dutch : Baumann, 1995;Schiller, 1997Schiller, , 1998for Mandarin Chinese: Chen, Lin, & Ferrand, 2003;for French: Brand, Rey, & Peereman, 2003;Evinck, 1997;Ferrand, Segui, & Grainger, 1996;Schiller, Costa, & Colomé, 2002; for English : Ferrand, Segui, & Humphreys, 1997;Schiller, 1999Schiller, , 2000Schiller and Costa, submitted; for Spanish and an overview see Schiller et al, 2002).…”

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Effects of syllable frequency in speech production

2006

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In the speech production model proposed by [Levelt, W. J. M., Roelofs, A., Meyer, A. S. (1999). A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, pp. 1-75.], syllables play a crucial role at the interface of phonological and phonetic encoding. At this interface, abstract phonological syllables are translated into phonetic syllables. It is assumed that this translation process is mediated by a so-called Mental Syllabary. Rather than constructing the motor programs for each syllable on-line, the mental syllabary is hypothesized to provide pre-compiled gestural scores for the articulators. In order to find evidence for such a repository, we investigated syllable-frequency effects: If the mental syllabary consists of retrievable representations corresponding to syllables, then the retrieval process should be sensitive to frequency differences. In a series of experiments using a symbol-position association learning task, we tested whether highfrequency syllables are retrieved and produced faster compared to low-frequency syllables. We found significant syllable frequency effects with monosyllabic pseudo-words and disyllabic pseudo-words in which the first syllable bore the frequency manipulation; no effect was found when the frequency manipulation was on the second syllable. The implications of these results for the theory of word form encoding at the interface of phonological and phonetic encoding; especially with respect to the access mechanisms to the mental syllabary in the speech production model by (Levelt et al.) are discussed. q

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Masked Syllable Priming of English Nouns

Cited by 49 publications

References 15 publications

Capacity demands of phoneme selection in word production: New evidence from dual-task experiments.

Capacity demands of phoneme selection in word production: New evidence from dual-task experiments.

Syllabic priming in lexical decision and naming tasks: The syllable congruency effect re-examined in French.

Effects of syllable frequency in speech production

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