Transposition effects in reading Japanese Kana: are they orthographic in nature?
One critical question for the front end of models of visual-word recognition and reading is whether the stage of letter position coding is purely orthographic or whether phonology is (to some degree) involved. To explore this issue, we conducted a silent reading experiment in Japanese Kana--a script in which orthography and phonology can be easily separated--using a technique that is highly sensitive to phonological effects (i.e., Rayner's (1975) boundary technique). Results showed shorter fixation times on the target word when the parafoveal preview was a transposed-mora nonword (a.ri.me.ka [アリメカ]-a.me.ri.ka [アメリカ]) than when the preview was a replacement-mora nonword (a.ka.ho.ka [アカホカ] -a.me.ri.ka [アメリカ]). More critically, fixation times on the target word were remarkably similar when the parafoveal preview was a transposed-consonant nonword (a.re.mi.ka [アレミカ]-a.ri.me.ka [アリメカ]) and when the parafoveal preview was an orthographic control nonword (a.ke.hi.ka [アケヒカ]-a.me.ri.ka [アメリカ]). Thus, these findings offer strong support for the view that letter/mora position coding during silent reading is orthographic in nature.
Departamento de Metodología, Facultad de Psicología, Universitat de València, Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 21, 46010, Valencia, Spain. mperea@valencia.edu
Manuel
M
Perea
Chie
C
Nakatani
Cees
C
van Leeuwen
D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012438:Saccades; D012660:Semantics; D014794:Visual Fields; D014956:Writing
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