Initial Consonant Groups Function as Units in Word Production

Bibliographic Data

ID10255660
AuthorsGuy Claxton (University of Oxford, corresponding author), Guy L Claxton (University of Oxford)
Year1974
Volume17
Issue3
Pages271-277
Publication date1974-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Speech (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002383097401700305
PMID4465624
OpenAlexW1946047614
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited5

Subjects were presented with single consonants, consonant-consonant pairs and consonant-vowel pairs, and asked to produce words beginning with these letters. Three presentation methods were used: visual tachistoscopic, acoustic with the letters " spelled ", and acoustic with the letters pronounced as they would be in a word. Latency measures revealed that the acoustic " spelling " condition took longer than the other two, and consonant-vowel took longer than consonant-consonant. These results are interpreted as supporting a conception of verbal memory in which initial consonant clusters are stored as integral units

Consonant · Consonant cluster · Linguistics · Phonetics · Speech recognition · Spelling · Stop consonant · Vowel · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development

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