title: What exactly interacts with spelling-sound consistency in word naming?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, England.
authors.forename: Josephine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Monaghan
authors.forename: Andrew W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning