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What causes the greater perceived similarity of consonant-transposed nonwords?

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dc.creator Schubert, Teresa
dc.creator Kinoshita, Sachiko
dc.creator Norris, Dennis
dc.date 2018-04-30T09:12:20Z
dc.date 2018-04-30T09:12:20Z
dc.date 2018-03
dc.date.accessioned 2019-03-20T08:23:08Z
dc.date.available 2019-03-20T08:23:08Z
dc.identifier https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275334
dc.identifier 10.17863/CAM.22522
dc.identifier.uri https://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/32236
dc.description Nonwords created by transposing two non-adjacent orthographic consonants (CONDISER) have been reported to produce more priming for their baseword (CONSIDER), and to be classified as a nonword less readily than nonwords created by transposing two orthographic vowels (CINSODER). We investigate the origin of this difference and its relevance for theories of letter position coding. In the unprimed versions of the lexical decision and same–different tasks, a consonant–vowel difference was found in the transposition condition, not when those letters are substituted (Experiment 1). We found that when transpositions involved the disruption of a consonant cluster (OPMITAL), reaction times were slowed compared to when transpositions involved only letters that are separated (CHOLOCATE; Experiment 2). As transpositions more frequently disrupt in consonant clusters than vowel clusters, this introduces a confound in studies investigating consonant and vowel transposition effects. Consistent with the idea that letter order is harder to resolve in clusters, the difference between consonants and vowels was eliminated when transpositions involve singleton consonants or vowels rather than those in clusters (Experiment 3). These results suggest that the precision of position coding does not differ between consonants and vowels, but that consonant–vowel status plays a role in structuring orthographic representations.
dc.format Print-Electronic
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Humans
dc.subject Photic Stimulation
dc.subject Recognition (Psychology)
dc.subject Perception
dc.subject Decision Making
dc.subject Psycholinguistics
dc.subject Reaction Time
dc.subject Students
dc.subject Universities
dc.subject Vocabulary
dc.subject Female
dc.subject Male
dc.title What causes the greater perceived similarity of consonant-transposed nonwords?
dc.type Article


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