The Effect of Visually Masked Syllable Primes on the Naming Latencies of Words and Pictures

Schiller, Niels O.

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“…Indeed, for CV targets, although CV and CVC primes shared the first three letters with the target, a facilitatory priming effect was obtained for CV primes onlythat is, in the event of syllable congruency. Such findings are in contradiction with the segmental overlap hypothesis (Schiller, 1998) according to which a prime sharing a large segment with the target preactivates more orthographic units than a smaller segment, and consequently strongly facilitates target processing. According to this pure orthographic hypothesis, a priming effect should have been found in the CVC prime condition compared to the control prime condition.…”

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“…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). In the lexicaldecision task, the syllable congruency effect was found in Spanish with SOAs higher than 60 ms when partial primes (Carreiras & Perea, 2002) and nonword primes (Alvarez et al, 2004;Dominguez, de Vega, & Cuetos, 1997) were used.…”

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“…Consequently, the target processing would be sped up in case of syllable congruency because of the residual activation of its first syllable by the prime. On the other hand, if syllable units play no role in lexical access or if the expected effects are confounded with orthographic properties of syllables, then the longer the prime, the stronger should be the priming effect, regardless of the syllable structure of the target (Schiller, 1998). In the latter prediction referred to as the segmental overlap hypothesis, the priming effect is assumed to depend on the longer of the shared segment between the prime and the target, and not on the structure of this segment.…”

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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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Section: Theoretical Implications Of the Syllable Congruency Effectcontrasting

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Section: Syllabic Priming Effects Using the Syllable Congruency Procementioning

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

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Mathey²

2009

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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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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“…Moreover, no specific syllable priming effects were obtained. The original segmental overlap effect (Schiller, 1998) has recently been specified in more detail (Schiller, 2004). Much discussion has been given to the results of the apparent syllable priming effect in French (Ferrand et al, 1997, Experiment 5).…”

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Effects of syllable frequency in speech production

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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

Schiller

1999

Brain and Language

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This study investigates the role of sublexical units in the phonological encoding of English single-word production in a word-naming task (Experiment 1) and a picture-naming task (Experiment 2). Targets corresponded to bisyllabic English nouns with word-initial stress which varied on the structure of their first syllable: CV (e.g., pi.lot), CVC (e.g., pic.nic), or CV[C] (e.g., pi[ll]ow). 1 Targets were preceded by a visually masked prime that either matched their first syllable (e.g., pi%%% Ϫ pi.lot) or that was one segment longer (e.g., pil%% Ϫ pi.lot) or shorter (e.g., pi%%%% Ϫ pic.nic) than the first syllable. Response times were compared to a neutral control condition (e.g., %&$%% Ϫ pi.lot) to measure the priming effects (either facilitation or inhibition). Results showed significant facilitation for both the CV and the CVC conditions. However, contrary to previous findings, there was no interaction between the syllabic structure of the prime and the target.

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The Effect of Visually Masked Syllable Primes on the Naming Latencies of Words and Pictures

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

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

Effects of syllable frequency in speech production

Masked Syllable Priming of English Nouns

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