Neighborhood effects on nonword visual processing in a language with shallow orthography

被引:42
作者
Arduino, LS
Burani, C
机构
[1] Univ Urbino, Ist Psicol Luigi Meschieri, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
[2] ISTC CNR, Inst Cognit Sci & Technol, Rome, Italy
关键词
Bigram frequency; neighborhood frequency; nonword processing; orthographic neighborhood size; reading aloud;
D O I
10.1023/B:JOPR.0000010515.58435.68
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
Neighborhood size and neighborhood frequency were orthogonally varied in two experiments on Italian nonwords. In Experiment 1, an inhibitory effect of neighborhood frequency on visual lexical decision was found: The presence of one high-frequency neighbor increased response latencies and error rates to nonwords. By contrast, no effect of neighborhood size and no neighborhood size X neighborhood frequency interaction were found. In Experiment 2, a facilitatory effect of neighborhood size on nonword naming was shown: Naming latencies were faster when nonwords had a large neighborhood. In the naming experiment, there was no effect of neighbors' frequency and no neighborhood size X neighborhood frequency interaction. An additional role for bigram frequency was found whereas syllable frequency did not give any independent contribution. These results further corroborate the view that, in a language with transparent orthography like Italian, despite a substantial contribution of sublexical print-to-sound mapping due to the language's high regularity/consistency, reading aloud of nonlexical material may benefit from the contribution of the lexical component.
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页数:21
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