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Phonological effects in visual word recognition: evidence from the processing of two types of Hebrew acronyms
Author(s) -
Peleg Orna,
Norman Tal,
Bergerbest Dafna
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9817.12240
Subject(s) - linguistics , phonology , lexical decision task , hebrew , psychology , word recognition , computer science , natural language processing , cognitive psychology , reading (process) , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience
To investigate phonological effects in visual word recognition, a visual lexical decision task was used in which the critical stimuli were two types of highly familiar Hebrew acronyms: ‘phonological’ acronyms that are conventionally pronounced as single words via letter‐to‐sound translation (ד"ש (d"ʃ) = /daʃ/), and ‘lexical’ acronyms that are conventionally pronounced according to their full multiword name (ת"א(t"ʔ) = /tel/ /aviv/). Thus, in the case of ‘phonological’ acronyms, phonological recoding may contribute to the recognition process, while in the case of ‘lexical’ acronyms, it may interfere ((ת"אt"ʔ) ≠ taʔ/). If familiar letter strings are accessed mainly orthographically, as assumed by dual route models, then no difference is expected between these two types of acronyms. Alternatively, if phonological recoding influences word recognition, then ‘phonological’ acronyms should be easier to recognise. Consistent with this latter interactive‐connectionist view, responses were faster and more accurate in the ‘phonological’ than in the ‘lexical’ condition.