The developmental turnpoint of orthographic consistency effects in speech recognition

Ventura, Paulo; Kolinsky, Régine; Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Morais, José

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2008.01.003

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“…For instance, Ziegler and Ferrand (1998) demonstrated that in the auditory lexical decision task, words with phonological rimes that could be spelled in multiple ways (i.e., inconsistent words such as “beak”) typically produce longer auditory lexical decision latencies and more errors than did words with rimes that could be spelled in only one way (i.e., consistent words such as “luck”). This finding, called the orthographic consistency effect, has been replicated many times in different languages (see, e.g., Ventura et al, 2004, 2007, 2008; Ziegler et al, 2004, 2008; Pattamadilok et al, 2007; Perre and Ziegler, 2008; Dich, 2011) and it strongly supports the claim that orthography affects the perception of spoken words.…”

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“…First, the effect is usually observed only for words and not for pseudowords (e.g., the present study; Ziegler and Ferrand, 1998; Ventura et al, 2004, 2007, 2008; Dich, 2011). Second, Ziegler et al (2004) found that the size of the consistency effect decreased through tasks (lexical decision > rime detection > shadowing) because these were likely to rely less and less on accessing lexical representations.…”

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Orthographic Consistency and Word-Frequency Effects in Auditory Word Recognition: New Evidence from Lexical Decision and Rime Detection

Petrova¹,

Gaskell²,

Ferrand³

2011

Front. Psychology

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Many studies have repeatedly shown an orthographic consistency effect in the auditory lexical decision task. Words with phonological rimes that could be spelled in multiple ways (i.e., inconsistent words) typically produce longer auditory lexical decision latencies and more errors than do words with rimes that could be spelled in only one way (i.e., consistent words). These results have been extended to different languages and tasks, suggesting that the effect is quite general and robust. Despite this growing body of evidence, some psycholinguists believe that orthographic effects on spoken language are exclusively strategic, post-lexical, or restricted to peculiar (low-frequency) words. In the present study, we manipulated consistency and word-frequency orthogonally in order to explore whether the orthographic consistency effect extends to high-frequency words. Two different tasks were used: lexical decision and rime detection. Both tasks produced reliable consistency effects for both low- and high-frequency words. Furthermore, in Experiment 1 (lexical decision), an interaction revealed a stronger consistency effect for low-frequency words than for high-frequency words, as initially predicted by Ziegler and Ferrand (1998), whereas no interaction was found in Experiment 2 (rime detection). Our results extend previous findings by showing that the orthographic consistency effect is obtained not only for low-frequency words but also for high-frequency words. Furthermore, these effects were also obtained in a rime detection task, which does not require the explicit processing of orthographic structure. Globally, our results suggest that literacy changes the way people process spoken words, even for frequent words.

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Orthographic Consistency and Word-Frequency Effects in Auditory Word Recognition: New Evidence from Lexical Decision and Rime Detection

Petrova¹,

Gaskell²,

Ferrand³

2011

Front. Psychology

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“…Ziegler & Ferrand, 1998). However, while many studies using this approach have reported robust orthographic effects (e.g., Pattamadilok et al, 2007;Ziegler, Ferrand, & Montant, 2004;Ziegler, Petrova, & Ferrand, 2008) others have reported trends that fail to reach significance over items (e.g., Perre & Ziegler, 2008;Ventura, Kolinsky, Pattamadilok, & Morais, 2008;Ventura, Morais, Pattamadilok, & Kolinsky, 2004), a situation that may result from the fact that this evidence is necessarily derived from a between-items comparison in which the introduction of confounding variables is always a risk. Further, while this result has been generalized to semantic categorization and gender decision (Peereman, Dufour, & Burt, 2009), it is unclear whether it holds for tasks that do not involve an explicit decision component.…”

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Orthography Influences the Perception and Production of Speech

Rastle¹,

McCormick²,

Bayliss³

et al. 2011

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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One intriguing question in language research concerns the extent to which orthographic information impacts on spoken word processing. Previous research has faced a number of methodological difficulties and has not reached a definitive conclusion. Our research addresses these difficulties by capitalizing on recent developments in the area of word learning. Participants were trained to criterion on a set of associations between novel pictures and novel spoken words. Spellingsound consistent or inconsistent spellings were introduced on the second day, and the influence of these spellings on speech processing was assessed on the third day. Results showed for the first time significant orthographic effects on speech perception and speech production in a situation in which spelling-sound consistency was manipulated with perfect experimental control. Results are discussed in terms of a highly interactive language system in which there is a rapid and automatic flow of activation in both directions between orthographic and phonological representations. Orthography influences the perception 3It is often said that spoken language has primacy over written language. Before acquiring skills in reading and writing, most children have expertise in understanding and producing speech.Indeed, while we are born with the propensity to use spoken language, reading is a learned form of expertise. It is not surprising, then, that language subsystems supporting reading are often characterized as being parasitic on those supporting our spoken abilities (e.g. Pinker, 1997). In line with this characterisation, there is a broad consensus that our experience with the sounds of words (phonology) plays a powerful role in learning to read (e.g. Rayner et al., 2001) and in adult visual word processing (e.g. Rastle & Brysbaert, 2006).The question that has received less attention is whether our experience with the spellings of words (orthography) comes to influence our spoken abilities. Though inconsistent with the primacy model, an increasing body of literature suggests that speech perception may be shaped by information about the printed forms of words, and there is limited research suggesting that the same could be true of speech production. These data have raised the remarkable possibility that information about the

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“…Alphabetic readers recognize spoken words more slowly when the words' phonemes can be spelled in different ways than when there is only one spelling for the words' phonemes (Ziegler and Ferrand, 1998). Facilitated word recognition for words with consistent orthography is already evident when normally developing children start reading and writing (Goswami et al, 2005; Ventura et al, 2007, 2008) but is reduced or even absent for children with dyslexia (Zecker, 1991; Desroches et al, 2010). Furthermore, native language orthography appears to have an impact on the processing of non-native language (Mitterer and McQueen, 2009; Escudero and Wanrooij, 2010).…”

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Processing of syllable stress is functionally different from phoneme processing and does not profit from literacy acquisition

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Speech is characterized by phonemes and prosody. Neurocognitive evidence supports the separate processing of each type of information. Therefore, one might suggest individual development of both pathways. In this study, we examine literacy acquisition in middle childhood. Children become aware of the phonemes in speech at that time and refine phoneme processing when they acquire an alphabetic writing system. We test whether an enhanced sensitivity to phonemes in middle childhood extends to other aspects of the speech signal, such as prosody. To investigate prosodic processing, we used stress priming. Spoken stressed and unstressed syllables (primes) preceded spoken German words with stress on the first syllable (targets). We orthogonally varied stress overlap and phoneme overlap between the primes and onsets of the targets. Lexical decisions and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) for the targets were obtained for pre-reading preschoolers, reading pupils and adults. The behavioral and ERP results were largely comparable across all groups. The fastest responses were observed when the first syllable of the target word shared stress and phonemes with the preceding prime. ERP stress priming and ERP phoneme priming started 200 ms after the target word onset. Bilateral ERP stress priming was characterized by enhanced ERP amplitudes for stress overlap. Left-lateralized ERP phoneme priming replicates previously observed reduced ERP amplitudes for phoneme overlap. Groups differed in the strength of the behavioral phoneme priming and in the late ERP phoneme priming effect. The present results show that enhanced phonological processing in middle childhood is restricted to phonemes and does not extend to prosody. These results are indicative of two parallel processing systems for phonemes and prosody that might follow different developmental trajectories in middle childhood as a function of alphabetic literacy.

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The developmental turnpoint of orthographic consistency effects in speech recognition

Cited by 32 publications

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Orthographic Consistency and Word-Frequency Effects in Auditory Word Recognition: New Evidence from Lexical Decision and Rime Detection

Orthographic Consistency and Word-Frequency Effects in Auditory Word Recognition: New Evidence from Lexical Decision and Rime Detection

Orthography Influences the Perception and Production of Speech

Processing of syllable stress is functionally different from phoneme processing and does not profit from literacy acquisition

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