Phonological inhibition in written production
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Phonological inhibition in written production Chen Feng1,2 · Qingqing Qu1,2 Received: 7 February 2020 / Accepted: 31 August 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The present study investigated the contribution of phonological relatedness on written production using the blocked cyclic naming paradigm. Participants were instructed to write down picture names in homogeneous and heterogeneous context. In the homogeneous context, items shared a syllable which corresponded to different written forms in various items. The position type of the shared syllable was manipulated so that the shared syllable was initial-only or distributed across various positions of words. Contrary to previous studies which showed facilitative effects of phonological relatedness on written production, interference effects in both reaction times and errors were found for both position types of phonological overlap. The findings indicate that phonological overlap does not always lead to facilitation but inhibition could occur. Implications of the present findings for theoretical models of word production are discussed.
Introduction In the production of written language, does knowledge about sound come into play? For the past decade, a rising number of investigations using a wide variety of tasks such as the picture-word interference (PWI), Stroop, masked priming, implicit priming have been directed at studying this issue (see Damian, 2018; Qu, Damian, & Li, 2015; Rapp & Damian, 2018 for a review). As will be shown below, the evidence concerning a role of phonology in orthographic output tasks is mixed, with a number of null findings concerning the involvement of phonology in writing, but also a range of findings supporting such a role. For instance Bonin, Fayol, and Peereman (1998), conducted a written masked priming study in which to-be-written objects were preceded by briefly presented and masked non-words, and manipulated the degree of phonological overlap between target and prime while holding orthographic relation constant. The size of priming effects was not affected by the degree of phonological overlap between target and prime. Bonin and colleagues concluded that orthographic codes are retrieved * Qingqing Qu [email protected] 1
Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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directly without prior access to phonological codes and Qu, Damian and Li (2015) revisited the issue using the identical paradigm but ideally manipulated pure phonological overlap in the absence of orthographic relation in the Chinese language. Qu et al. found that phonologically related but orthographically unrelated primes facilitated written responses. Besides, such a phonologically priming effect vanished when written responses were replaced by manual semantic decision task, which indicates that the phonological ef
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