PHONOLOGICAL RECODING OF MIXED-CASE WORDS IN THE PRIMING TASK

Author： Lee Chang H. Honig Robyn Lee Yang

ISSN： 1521-0685

Source： Reading Psychology, Vol.23, Iss.3, 2002-07, pp. : 199-216

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Abstract

The successes of the phonological recoding hypothesis induced us naturally to question the role of orthographic information. Mixed-case words (e.g., tOwEd -> toad vs. tOlD-> toad) were used as a prime in the priming task in order to investigate the locus of an orthographic spelling check, based on the assumption of the phonological recoding hypothesis. Experiment 1 showed that both normal-case prime and mixed-case prime produced significant phonological priming in a short Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA) of the prime and the target. In contrast, Experiment 2, using a long SOA, showed that the mixed-case prime maintained the phonological priming, but the normal-case prime did not. These results indicated that the orthographic spelling check distinguished the normal-case and the mixed-case in a later stage of word recognition, not in an early stage.