Effects of word frequency and spelling-to-sound regularity in naming with and without preceding lexical decision.
The effects of word frequency and spelling-to-sound regularity were examined using standard naming, standard lexical-decision, go/no-go naming, and go/no-go lexical-decision tasks. In both the standard and go/no-go naming tasks, tasks requiring phonological coding, a significant Frequency x Regularity interaction was observed. That is, the regularity effect was limited to low-frequency words. In the standard and go/no-go lexical-decision tasks, tasks not requiring phonological coding, no Frequency x Regularity interaction was observed. These results indicate not only that the Frequency x Regularity interaction is a product of phonological coding processes but also that these processes are similar in the standard and go/no-go naming tasks. Results are discussed in terms of the dual-route and the parallel distributed processing frameworks.
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Department of Psychology, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan. hino@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp
Lupker
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D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D014936:Word Association Tests