Effects of phonological features on reading-aloud latencies: A cross-linguistic comparison.

ABSTRACT: Most psycholinguistic models of reading aloud and of speech production do not include linguistic representations more fine-grained than the phoneme, despite the fact that the available empirical evidence suggests that feature-level representations are activated during reading aloud and speech production. In a series of masked-priming experiments that employed the reading aloud task, we investigated effects of phonological features, such as voicing, place of articulation, and constriction location, on response latencies in English and Russian. We propose a hypothesis that predicts greater likelihood of obtaining feature-priming effects when the onsets of the prime and the target share more feature values than when they share fewer. We found that prime-target pairs whose onsets differed only

SUBMITTER: Ulicheva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8482789 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature