Word recognition in Serbo-Croatian is phonologically analytic

Conducted a lexical-decision task with 28 undergraduate bialphabetic readers of Serbo-Croatian. It was shown that letter strings that can be assigned both a Roman and a Cyrillic alphabet reading incurred longer latencies than did the unique alphabet transcription of the same word. This within-word p...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 1983-04, Vol.9 (2), p.288-298
Main Authors: Feldman, Laurie B, Turvey, M. T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Alphabets
Human
Humans
Phonetics
Psycholinguistics
Reading
Recognition (Learning)
Stimulus Ambiguity
Words (Phonetic Units)
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Summary:Conducted a lexical-decision task with 28 undergraduate bialphabetic readers of Serbo-Croatian. It was shown that letter strings that can be assigned both a Roman and a Cyrillic alphabet reading incurred longer latencies than did the unique alphabet transcription of the same word. This within-word phonological-ambiguity effect was obtained for both words and pseudowords, but the effect was more exaggerated with words. The magnitude of the difference depended on the number and distribution of ambiguous characters in the ambiguous letter string. It is concluded that lexical decision in Serbo-Croatian necessarily involves a phonologically analytic strategy. (18 ref)
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.9.2.288