Pronunciation of homographs

Kawamoto, Alan H.; Zemblidge, John H

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“…The model implemented thus erroneously predicts that latencies corresponding to irregular pronunciations of exception words (which occur most of the time) should be shorter than latencies corresponding to the regular pronunciations. This was neither the case in Kawamoto and Zemblidge's (1992) study nor in the present experiment (see Table 3). Furthermore, since the magnitude of the error score is affected by the target's resemblance to phonologically divergent words, one should predict an effect of enemy frequency both on latencies and on regularisation errors.…”

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“…The information provided by the context adjacent to the orthographic units would gradually constrain the activation of the units in such a way that the correct pronunciation (irregular for exception words) could take precedence over the regular one. A first step in this direction is found in the dynamical system recently described by Kawamoto (1993;Kawamoto & Zemblidge, 1992). The network encodes orthographic and phonological information as well as parts of speech and semantic attributes.…”

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Naming regular and exception words: Further examination of the effect of phonological dissension among lexical neighbours

Peereman

1995

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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It is generally assumed that visual word recognition is accompanied by the activation of lexical representations corresponding to words orthographically similar to the target (neighbours). With regard to the pronunciation of their constituent units, these words can either converge with or diverge from the target pronunciation. The role of the frequency of the divergent pronunciations in print-to-sound conversion was examined in a naming experiment in which subjects pronounced regular and exception words. The results showed that naming latencies for exception words were affected by the orthographic similarity of the target with frequent phonologically divergent words (enemies). ln a similar vein, regular words which include the letters G or C (whose pronunciations are contextually determined) and which are orthographically similar to words favouring an incorrect pronunciation of the letter took longer to pronounce than regular controls. A delayed naming experiment indicated that these differences were not attributable to the articulatory characteristics of the items. Finally, it also appeared that enemy frequency influenced naming latencies but not regularisation rates and regularisation latencies. The results are discussed within the framework of current dual-route and parallel distributed processing models of reading.------------Requests for reprints should be addressed to Ronald Peereman,

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Naming regular and exception words: Further examination of the effect of phonological dissension among lexical neighbours

Peereman

1995

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…The spelling pattern touch activates its own pronunciation, but it also activates the rhyme with couch. This implies multistability-two pronunciations are possible, the correct pronunciation and the rime error (cf., Kawamoto & Zemblidge, 1992).…”

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When SOFA primes TOUCH: Interdependence of spelling, sound, and meaning in “semantically mediated” phonological priming

2001

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Semantically mediated priming of phonology is a delicate phenomenon-what O' Seaghdha and Marin (1997) called "a real but slender effect." In semantically mediated phonological priming, a prime word such as night activates the phonology of a semantically related mediating word, day. In turn, this activation affects naming performance to a target like dare, which partially shares the phonologyof day. Thus, the indirectly related prime, night, primes the target, dare. In their study, O'Seaghdha and Marin (1997) found a weak facilitation of naming response from semantically mediated phonological priming: Participants were faster to name targets preceded by an indirectly related prime than those preceded by an unrelated prime. However, this difference was usually only statistically reliable by participants, not by items.O'Seaghdha and Marin (1997) explicitly tied the empirical delicacy of semantically mediated phonologicalpriming to mediating lexical nodes (see also Dell & O'Seaghdha, 1991). In normal associative priming (e.g., night primes day), activationspreads directly from the target to the prime. However, in semantically mediated phonological priming, the spread of activation is indirect: Night activates the mediating word day, which then partly activates the phonology of dare. According to O'Seaghdha and Marin (1997), it is this extra distance "over noisy lines" (p. 250) between lexical nodes that attenuates the effect of semantically mediated phonologicalpriming. In this article, we suggest that semantically mediated phonologicalpriming is not always delicate. Rather, we use the phonologicalcoherence hypothesis, which assumes that the activation of a word's phonology is derived from direct interactive activation between orthographic, phonologic, and semantic nodes, to predict that relatively robust semantically mediated phonological priming can be found if the target words have the appropriate spelling-phonology relationships (i.e., targets with a phonology that coheres relatively slowly).Semantically mediated phonological priming is important because it provides a good test of interactiveactivation models (Dell, 1986(Dell, , 1988MacKay, 1987;Stemberger, 1985). In the cited accounts, which assume the presence of lexical nodes, activation flows in both directions between phonology nodes and lexical nodes and between lexical nodes and semantic features. Consequently, we should find a variety of effects in which activation spreads all the way from semantic features to phonology nodes (for example) or all the way from phonology nodes to semantic features. The latter category of effects is well established. Targets (e.g., look) are named faster when preceded by pseudoprimes that sound like semantic associates (e.g., stair), as compared with control primes (Lesch & Pollatsek, 1993), and pseudohomophone primes work as well as word primes (e.g., tode primes naming of frog; Lukatela & Turvey, 1994). Three experiments test for semantically mediated priming of a word's phonology (e.g., sofa, an associate of couch, pri...

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“…Within the visual modality, a large body of findings demonstrates that word recognition is affected by the phonological characteristics of the letter string. Performance in semantic categorization tasks decreases when the nonmember target words are homophonic with a member of the semantic category (Jared & Seidenberg, 1991;Van Orden, Johnston, & Hale, 1988) and (nonhomophonic) homographs produce longer latencies in lexical decision (Kawamoto & Zemblidge, 1992). Also, recent observations of semantic ambiguity (Borowsky & Masson, 1996) and word imageability effects (Strain, Patterson, & Seidenberg, 1995) on naming performance suggest that semantic knowledge contributes to lexical decision and naming.…”

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Is Perception a Two-Way Street? The Case of Feedback Consistency in Visual Word Recognition

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Bonin

1998

Journal of Memory and Language

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It is generally assumed that during reading, the activation produced over orthographic units feeds forward to phonological units. Supporting interactive models of word recognition, Stone, Vanhoy, and Van Orden (1997) recently claimed that phonological activation reverberates to orthographic processing units and consequently constrains orthographic encoding. They found that the consistency of the relations between phonology and orthography (feedback consistency) influenced lexical decision performance. We explored the effect in five experiments conducted with French words. Although feedback consistency affected writing performance, no significant effect was observed in lexical decision even when inconsistency was defined so as to maximize the effect. We also show that previous reports of consistency effects in French (Ziegler, Montant, & Jacobs, 1997a) may be due to a confound between consistency and word frequency, as assessed by subjective frequency estimates. We conclude that there is at present little evidence that sound-to-print consistency influences orthographic encoding in visual word recognition.

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Pronunciation of homographs

Cited by 69 publications

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Naming regular and exception words: Further examination of the effect of phonological dissension among lexical neighbours

Naming regular and exception words: Further examination of the effect of phonological dissension among lexical neighbours

When SOFA primes TOUCH: Interdependence of spelling, sound, and meaning in “semantically mediated” phonological priming

Is Perception a Two-Way Street? The Case of Feedback Consistency in Visual Word Recognition

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