scholarly journals Orthographic Consistency and Word-Frequency Effects in Auditory Word Recognition: New Evidence from Lexical Decision and Rime Detection

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Petrova ◽  
M. Gareth Gaskell ◽  
Ludovic Ferrand
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Effects ◽  
Auditory Word ◽  
Auditory Word Recognition ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Orthographic Consistency

The Orthographic Consistency Effect in French and Spanish: Phoneme-to-Grapheme Mappings Influence Auditory Word Recognition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Furgoni ◽  
Antje Stoehr ◽  
Clara D. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision ◽  
Auditory Word ◽  
Consistency Effect ◽  
Auditory Word Recognition ◽  
Phonemic Level ◽  
Phonological Unit ◽  
Orthographic Consistency

PurposeIn languages with alphabetical writing systems, the relationship between phonology and orthography is strong. Phonology-to-orthography mappings can be consistent (i.e., one phonological unit corresponds to one orthographic unit) or inconsistent (i.e., one phonological unit corresponds to multiple orthographic units). This study investigates whether the Orthographic Consistency Effect (OCE) emerges at the phonemic level during auditory word recognition, regardless of the opacity of a language’s writing system.MethodsThirty L1-French (opaque language) and 30 L1-Spanish (transparent language) listeners participated in an L1 auditory lexical decision task which included stimuli with either only consistently-spelled phonemes or both consistently-spelled and a number of inconsistently-spelled phonemes. ResultsThe results revealed that listeners were faster at recognizing consistently-spelled words than inconsistently-spelled words. This implies that consistently-spelled words are recognized more easily than inconsistent ones. As for pseudoword processing, there is a numerical trend that might indicate a higher sensibility of French listeners to phoneme-to-grapheme inconsistencies. ConclusionsThese findings have theoretical implications: inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme mappings, like inconsistencies at the level of the syllable or rhyme, impact auditory word recognition. Moreover, our results suggest that the OCE should occur in all languages with alphabetical writing systems, regardless of their level of orthographic opacity.

scholarly journals Affective Valence of Words Differentially Affects Visual and Auditory Word Recognition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanji Gao ◽  
Svetlana V. Shinkareva ◽  
Marius Peelen
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Asymmetric Effect ◽  
Affective Valence ◽  
Auditory Lexical Decision ◽  
Auditory Word ◽  
Auditory Word Recognition ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
Decision Times

Recognizing written or spoken words involves a sequence of processing stages, transforming sensory features into lexical-semantic representations. While the later processing stages are common across modalities, the initial stages are modality-specific. In the visual modality, previous studies have shown that words with positive valence are recognized faster than neutral words. Here, we examined whether the effects of valence on word recognition are specific to the visual modality or are common across visual and auditory modalities. To address this question, we analyzed multiple large databases of visual and auditory lexical decision tasks, relating the valence of words to lexical decision times while controlling for a large number of variables, including arousal and frequency. We found that valence differentially influenced visual and auditory word recognition. Valence had an asymmetric effect on visual lexical decision times, primarily speeding up recognition of positive words. By contrast, valence had a symmetric effect on auditory lexical decision times, with both negative and positive words speeding up word recognition relative to neutral words. The modality-specificity of valence effects were consistent across databases and were observed when the same set of words were compared across modalities. We interpret these findings as indicating that valence influences word recognition partly at the sensory-perceptual stage. We relate these effects to the effects of positive (reward) and negative (punishment) reinforcers on perception.

The locus of the orthographic consistency effect in auditory word recognition

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Ventura ◽  
José Morais ◽  
Chotiga Pattamadilok ◽  
Régine Kolinsky
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Auditory Word ◽  
Consistency Effect ◽  
Auditory Word Recognition ◽  
Orthographic Consistency
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