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Some linguistic determinants of Swedish word recognition
Author(s) -
JARVELLA ROBERT J.,
MELLENIUS INGMARIE,
WENNSTEDT OLA
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1990.tb00840.x
Subject(s) - morpheme , linguistics , orthography , psychology , word recognition , word (group theory) , lexical decision task , root (linguistics) , task (project management) , substring , priming (agriculture) , prime (order theory) , phonology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , computer science , reading (process) , cognition , mathematics , philosophy , botany , germination , management , set (abstract data type) , combinatorics , neuroscience , economics , biology , programming language
Native Swedish words and words of foreign origin were studied in a word fill‐in task (Experiment 1), in a task in which words were explicitly classified as being native or loan words (Experiment 2), and in a lexical decision task in which a small onset asynchrony was introduced in displaying a word's letter pattern (Experiment 3). The findings obtained show that, both in simple printed word recognition and when asked to make explicit judgments about origin, readers are sensitive to phonological features of words not marked in Swedish orthography. It was further found that previewing a substring of word‐initial letters which determines a word's root morpheme will prime recognition, whereas previewing a randomly selected pattern of letters inhibits recognition.