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The influence of lexical and structural variables on lexical decision and syllable judgment tasks
Author(s) -
Parkin Alan J.
Publication year - 1985
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/j.1467-9817.1985.tb00312.x
Subject(s) - lexical decision task , syllable , psychology , task (project management) , linguistics , word (group theory) , word lists by frequency , lexical item , natural language processing , cognition , computer science , philosophy , sentence , management , neuroscience , economics
In this study subjects were presented with a series of letter strings and required to either make a lexical decision about each one or to judge the number of syllables present. The factors manipulated were lexicality (word/nonword), word frequency (high/low), syllables (one/two), and array length (4, 5, 6 letters). The results showed that neither task was affected by number of syllables. Lexical decision times were influenced by word frequency and lexicality but not affected by array length or number of syllables. Syllable judgments were found to be significantly quicker for four‐ and six‐letter words compared with five‐letter words. Implications of these results in relation to the processing demands of lexical decision and syllable judgment tasks are discussed.