What exactly interacts with spelling-sound consistency in word naming?
Word frequency, age of acquisition (AoA), and imageability were combined with spelling-sound consistency, and their effects on word naming were examined. Frequency and AoA interacted with consistency (Experiments 1 and 2). Imageability did not (Experiment 3). Experiment 4 replicated Experiment 2 of E. Strain, K. E. Patterson, and M. S. Seidenberg's (1995) study and obtained the same apparent effect of imageability on naming. That effect disappeared when AoA was entered as a covariate. An explanation of the interactions of consistency with frequency and AoA is offered in terms of the properties of adaptive connectionist networks given gradual and cumulative training.
Monaghan
Josephine
J
Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, England.
Ellis
Andrew W
AW
D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning