Competition effects in phonological priming: the role of mismatch position between primes and targets.
In three experiments, we examined lexical competition effects using the phonological priming paradigm in a shadowing task. Experiments 1A and 1B showed that an inhibitory priming effect occurred when the primes mismatched the targets on the last phoneme (/bagar/-/bagaj/). In contrast, a facilitatory priming effect was observed when the primes mismatched the targets on the medial phoneme (/viraj/-/vilaj/). Experiment 2 replicated these findings with primes presented visually rather than auditorily. The data thus indicate that the position of the mismatching phoneme is a critical factor in determining the competition effect between prime and target words.
Dufour
Sophie
S
Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique Expérimentale, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland. Sophie.Dufour@univ-provence.fr
Peereman
Ronald
R
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013060:Speech; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis