How much does orthography influence the processing of reduced word forms?
- This study examines the influence of orthography on the processing of reduced word forms. For this purpose, we compared the impact of phonological variation with the impact of spelling-sound consistency on the processing of words that may be produced with or without the vowel schwa. Participants learnt novel French words in which the vowel schwa was present or absent in the first syllable. In Experiment 1, the words were consistently produced without schwa or produced in a variable manner (i.e., sometimes produced with and sometimes produced without schwa). In Experiment 2, words were always produced in a consistent manner, but an orthographic exposure phase was included in which words that were produced without schwa were either spelled with or without the letter < e >. Results from naming and eye-tracking tasks suggest that both phonological variation and spelling-sound consistency influence the processing of spoken novel words. However, the influence of phonological variation outweighs the effect of spelling-sound consistency. OurThis study examines the influence of orthography on the processing of reduced word forms. For this purpose, we compared the impact of phonological variation with the impact of spelling-sound consistency on the processing of words that may be produced with or without the vowel schwa. Participants learnt novel French words in which the vowel schwa was present or absent in the first syllable. In Experiment 1, the words were consistently produced without schwa or produced in a variable manner (i.e., sometimes produced with and sometimes produced without schwa). In Experiment 2, words were always produced in a consistent manner, but an orthographic exposure phase was included in which words that were produced without schwa were either spelled with or without the letter < e >. Results from naming and eye-tracking tasks suggest that both phonological variation and spelling-sound consistency influence the processing of spoken novel words. However, the influence of phonological variation outweighs the effect of spelling-sound consistency. Our findings therefore suggest that the influence of orthography on the processing of reduced word forms is relatively small.…
| Author details: | Malte Clemens ViebahnGND, James Milroy McQueenORCiDGND, Mirjam Theresia Constantia ErnestusGND, Ulrich Hans FrauenfelderGND, Audrey Damaris Bürki-FoschiniORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817741859 |
| ISSN: | 1747-0218 |
| ISSN: | 1747-0226 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30362403 |
| Title of parent work (English): | The quarterly journal of experimental psychology |
| Subtitle (English): | Evidence from novel-word learning about French schwa deletion |
| Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2018 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/07/09 |
| Tag: | Novel-word learning; orthography; schwa deletion; spoken-word production; spoken-word recognition |
| Volume: | 71 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Number of pages: | 17 |
| First page: | 2378 |
| Last Page: | 2394 |
| Funding institution: | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific ResearchNetherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); Swiss National Science FoundationSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [100014_159374] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
