Seriality of phonological encoding in naming objects and reading their names.
There is a remarkable lack of research bringing together the literatures on oral reading and speaking. As concerns phonological encoding, both models of reading and speaking assume a process of segmental spellout for words, which is followed by serial prosodification in models of speaking (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999). Thus, a natural place to merge models of reading and speaking would be at the level of segmental spellout. This view predicts similar seriality effects in reading and object naming. Experiment 1 showed that the seriality of encoding inside a syllable revealed in previous studies of speaking is observed for both naming objects and reading their names. Experiment 2 showed that both object naming and reading exhibit the seriality of the encoding of successive syllables previously observed for speaking. Experiment 3 showed that the seriality is also observed when object naming and reading trials are mixed rather than tested separately, as in the first two experiments. These results suggest that a serial phonological encoding mechanism is shared between naming objects and reading their names.
Roelofs
Ardi
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, F. C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. ardi@mpi.nl
D006801:Humans; D009275:Names; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D014825:Vocabulary