Phonological Ambiguity and Lexical Ambiguity: Effects on Visual and Auditory Word Recognition

Three experiments in Serbo-Croatian were conducted on the effects of phonological ambiguity and lexical ambiguity on printed word recognition. Subjects decided rapidly if a printed and a spoken word matched or not. Printed words were either phonologically ambiguous (two possible pronunciations) or u...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 1990-07, Vol.16 (4), p.569-580
Main Authors: Frost, Ram, Feldman, Laurie B, Katz, Leonard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attention
Auditory Perception
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Language
Lexical Access
Memory
Miscellaneous
Phonetics
Phonology
Psycholinguistics
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Reading
Semantics
Social research
Speech Perception
Word Recognition
Written Language
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Summary:Three experiments in Serbo-Croatian were conducted on the effects of phonological ambiguity and lexical ambiguity on printed word recognition. Subjects decided rapidly if a printed and a spoken word matched or not. Printed words were either phonologically ambiguous (two possible pronunciations) or unambiguous. If phonologically ambiguous, either both pronunciations were real words or only one was, the other being a nonword. Spoken words were necessarily unambiguous. Half the spoken words were auditorily degraded. In addition, the relative onsets of speech and print were varied. Speed of matching print to speech was slowed by phonological ambiguity, and the effect was amplified when the stimulus was also lexically ambiguous. Auditory degradation did not interact with print ambiguity, suggesting that perception of the spoken word was independent of the printed word.
ISSN:0278-7393
1939-1285
DOI:10.1037/0278-7393.16.4.569