Phonological Access to the Mental Lexicon in a Target Discrimination Task
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10122902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Garvin Chastain (Boise State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-60 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.1984.9709947 |
| PMID | 6699627 |
| OpenAlex | W1972141808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
A phonological route to the mental lexicon was demonstrated in two experiments. Each involved a target discrimination task in which the target was the first or last letter of a quadrigram. Half the quadrigrams were pseudohomophones (identical in sound but not in spelling to an English word) and the other half were nonhomophones (pronounceable but neither spelled like nor sounding like any English word). In Experiment 1 each pseudohomophone had a nonhomophone counterpart produced by changing only the letter on the opposite end of the string from the target. In Experiment 2 the nonhomophone counterparts were produced by changing only the letter next to the one on the opposite end of the string from the target; thus the extreme letters were the same for both types of quadrigrams. Performance was significantly better on pseudohomophones than on nonhomophones in both experiments
Cognition · Lexical access · Lexicon · Linguistics · Mental lexicon · Natural language processing · Phonology · Speech recognition · Spelling · String (physics · Task (project management · Word (group theory · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Computer Science · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 1987 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |