title: The processing of pseudohomophones by adults with a history of developmental language disabilities.
abstract: Psuedohomophones are nonwords that sound like real words (e.g., BRANE). These items were used to gauge phonological access in adults who have experienced developmental language processing deficits (DLD). The standard effect for these items in lexical decision is an increase in response times over nonpseudohomophone nonwords. This disadvantage reflects phonological processing. In our first experiment the DLD group did not produce this pseudohomophone effect whereas in a second experiment they showed semantic priming effects when pseudohomophones were used as primes in lexical decision. The results therefore indicate that phonological processing of nonwords by adults with DLD can be uncovered under certain carefully controlled experimental conditions.
authors: University of Windsor, Ont., Canada.
authors: Ruth Ann
authors: RA
authors: Atchley
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Halderman
authors: Kristin
authors: K
authors: Kwasny
authors: Lori
authors: L
authors: Buchanan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary