title: Writing nonsense: the interaction between lexical and sublexical knowledge in the priming of nonword spelling.
abstract: The task of spelling nonwords to dictation necessarily requires the operation of a sublexical or assembled sound-to-spelling conversion process. We report an experiment that shows a clear lexical priming effect on nonword spelling (e.g., /vi:m/ was spelled as VEME more often following the prime word "theme" and as VEAM more often following "dream"), which was larger for lexically low-probability (or low-contingency) than for common (or high-contingency) spellings. Priming diminished when an unrelated word intervened between the prime word and target nonword and did so more for the production of low- than for high-contingency spellings. We interpret these results within an interactive model of spelling production that proposes feedback from the graphemic level to both the lexical and assembled spelling processes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.
authors.forename: Daisy H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barry
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D060865:Repetition Priming; D055815:Young Adult