Can the word superiority effect be modulated by serial position and prosodic structure?

ABSTRACT: In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued letter-in-string identification task in words, pseudo-words, and non-words. The results established the presence of the word superiority effect in Arabic and a robust effect of context in both languages. However, they revealed that, compared to the non-word context, word and pseudo-word contexts facilitated letter identification more in Arabic than in English. In addition, the difference between word and pseudo-word contexts was smaller in Arabic compared to English. Finally, there was a consistent first-letter advantage in English regardless of the context, while this w

SUBMITTER: Marzouki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9389116 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature