Test of the phonological recoding hypothesis using a letter-delay task.
In some English words is a silent letter in the letter strings, e.g., PSALM. This type of word provides room to manipulate phonological similarity against the words with a nonsilent letter in the corresponding position, e.g., PASTA, to test the phonological recoding hypothesis. Letter strings excluding the silent letter or the sounding letter, e.g., _salm and a phonological condition, _asta as an orthographic condition, were presented. A "psalm-type word" was processed faster than pasta-type word," indicating that phonology plays a leading role in word recognition.
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Chang H
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Department of Psychology, Pusan National University, South Korea. chleehoan@pusan.ac.kr
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics