The role of orthography in speech production revisited

Alario, F.‐Xavier; Perre, Laetitia; Castel, Caroline; Ziegler, Johannes C.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.02.002

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“…This finding suggests an effect of orthography on word production. However, Chen, Chen, and Dell (2002) did not obtain this effect in the Chinese language, Damian and Bowers (2009) did not obtain an orthographic facilitation effect when distractors were presented auditorily and Alario, Perre, Castel, and Ziegler (2007) failed to obtain the original effect in French. The latter authors concluded: "spoken wordproduction processes are insensitive to the orthographic properties of the words being produced …" (p. 472).…”

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Orthographic and phonological facilitation in speech production: New evidence from picture naming in Chinese

2012

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oPicture naming is facilitated when a target picture (e.g. of a cat) is accompanied by a form-related context word (e.g. CAP) relative to an unrelated word (e.g. PEN). Because in alphabetic languages phonological and orthographic similarity are confounded, Chinese, a logographic language, has been employed to study these two effects in isolation. The results obtained suggest that the orthographic facilitation effect is localized at an earlier processing level than the phonological facilitation effect. In the present study we examine this issue again, using an experimental design in which the context words in the related and unrelated conditions are optimally matched. In contrast to the earlier studies Experiments 1 and 2 fail to show differences in the time course of the two context effects. Moreover, Experiment 3 provides direct evidence against an early, conceptual locus of orthographic facilitation. Our findings indicate that in Chinese language production both orthographically and phonologically related context words have their effect at the rather late level of word-form encoding.

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Orthographic and phonological facilitation in speech production: New evidence from picture naming in Chinese

2012

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“…Another factor that was thought to contribute to the orthographic effect in Damian and Bowers (2003) is that speakers may use orthographic codes to facilitate completion of a complicated spoken word production task, such as the word associative learning and production task in the formpreparation paradigm (Alario, Perre, Castel, & Ziegler, 2007). Alario et al (2007) found that, in a simple picturenaming task where orthographic information was not presented, speakers did not show the orthographic effect that was found in Damian and Blowers (2003).…”

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The effect of orthographic form-cuing on the phonological preparation unit in spoken word production

Wang

Idsardi

2014

Mem Cogn

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Two experiments using the form-preparation paradigm were conducted to investigate the effect of orthographic form-cuing on the phonological preparation unit during spoken word production with native Mandarin speakers. In both experiments, participants were instructed to memorize nine prompt-response monosyllabic word pairs, after which an associative naming session was conducted in which the prompts were presented and participants were asked to say the corresponding response names as quickly and accurately as possible. In both experiments, the response words in the homogeneous lists shared the same onsets, or shared the same rimes; the response names had no common aspects of pronunciation in the heterogeneous lists. Chinese characters (Experiment 1) and Pinyin (phonetic transcription of the characters) (Experiment 2) were used to investigate the effect of the orthographic form. Significant onset facilitation and rime inhibition was shown for Pinyin syllables but not for characters. The contrasts of the onset and rime effect in the two orthographic forms suggest that a specific phonological unit is promoted in spoken word production in a certain orthographic form. Pinyin cued the participants to prepare the onset whereas Chinese characters did not. The rime interference effect may arise as a result of lexical competition in spoken word production.

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“…There is growing evidence that orthography affects L1 phonology (e.g., Rastle, McCormick, Bayliss, & Davis, 2011; but see e.g. Alario, Perre, Castel, & Ziegler, 2007). However, evidence from L2 speakers may be quantitatively and qualitatively different.…”

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Orthography affects second language speech: Double letters and geminate production in English.

Bassetti

2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Second languages (L2s) are often learned through spoken and written input, and L2 orthographic forms (spellings) can lead to non-native-like pronunciation. The present study investigated whether orthography can lead experienced learners of English L2 to make a phonological contrast in their speech production that does not exist in English. Double consonants represent geminate (long) consonants in Italian but not in English. In Experiment 1, native English speakers and English L2 speakers (Italians) were asked to read aloud English words spelled with a single or double target consonant letter, and consonant duration was compared. The English L2 speakers produced the same consonant as shorter when it was spelled with a single letter, and longer when spelled with a double letter. Spelling did not affect consonant duration in native English speakers. In Experiment 2, effects of orthographic input were investigated by comparing 2 groups of English L2 speakers (Italians) performing a delayed word repetition task with or without orthographic input; the same orthographic effects were found in both groups. These results provide arguably the first evidence that L2 orthographic forms can lead experienced L2 speakers to make a contrast in their L2 production that does not exist in the language. The effect arises because L2 speakers are affected by the interaction between the L2 orthographic form (number of letters), and their native orthography-phonology mappings, whereby double consonant letters represent geminate consonants. These results have important implications for future studies investigating the effects of orthography on native phonology and for L2 phonological development models.

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The role of orthography in speech production revisited

Cited by 89 publications

References 42 publications

Orthographic and phonological facilitation in speech production: New evidence from picture naming in Chinese

Orthographic and phonological facilitation in speech production: New evidence from picture naming in Chinese

The effect of orthographic form-cuing on the phonological preparation unit in spoken word production

Orthography affects second language speech: Double letters and geminate production in English.

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