Phonological Mediation in Visual Masked Priming: Evidence From Phonotactic Repair

In a series of 4 experiments, the authors show that phonological repair mechanisms, known to operate in the auditory modality, are directly translated in the visual modality. This holds with the provision that printed stimuli are presented for a very brief duration and that the effect of phonologica...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 2008-02, Vol.34 (1), p.177-192
Hauptverfasser: Hallé, Pierre A, Dominguez, Alberto, Cuetos, Fernando, Segui, Juan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In a series of 4 experiments, the authors show that phonological repair mechanisms, known to operate in the auditory modality, are directly translated in the visual modality. This holds with the provision that printed stimuli are presented for a very brief duration and that the effect of phonological repair is tested after a delay of some 100 ms has elapsed after that presentation. The case of phonological repair chosen to exemplify the parallelism between print and speech is the prosthesis of /e/ in utterances beginning with /s/ followed by a consonant in Spanish. Native speakers of Spanish hear a prothetic /e/ in auditorily presented pseudowords such as special (/speθjal/, derived from "especial") as well as stuto (/stuto/, derived from "astuto"). It is shown here that they also hear that same vowel /e/ when presented with the printed pseudowords "special" and "stuto." This finding of a phonological repair effect in print has implications for the issue of phonological activation from print, as well as for the prelexical locus and mandatory nature of phonological repair mechanisms in general.
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.177