Tabossi P, Laghi L
Università di Bologna, Italy.
Mem Cognit. 1992 May;20(3):303-13. doi: 10.3758/bf03199667.
Semantic priming effects in naming Italian and English words were investigated. Experiments 1 and 2 were in Italian. In Experiment 1, the subjects named a target word, which was either associated with or unrelated to a preceding prime. The results showed semantic priming effects. However, in Experiment 2, in which the same materials occurred in a list that also included pseudowords, priming effects were obtained with the lexical decision task, but not with pronunciation. In Experiment 3, the inclusion of pseudowords in the materials prevented priming effects from occurring in Italian, but not in English. Finally, Experiment 4 indicated that, even in Italian, nonlexical reading was abandoned when a few of the to-be-pronounced items required lexical knowledge for correct stress assignment. The findings suggest that reading normally occurs lexically. The characteristics of the various writing systems, however, are relevant in determining the strategies that people may adopt in unusual circumstances.
对意大利语和英语单词命名中的语义启动效应进行了研究。实验1和实验2使用意大利语。在实验1中，受试者对一个目标词进行命名，该目标词要么与前面的启动词相关，要么无关。结果显示了语义启动效应。然而，在实验2中，同样的材料出现在一个还包括伪词的列表中，在词汇判断任务中获得了启动效应，但在发音任务中没有。在实验3中，材料中包含伪词阻止了意大利语中的启动效应，但英语中没有。最后，实验4表明，即使在意大利语中，当一些要发音的项目需要词汇知识来正确分配重音时，非词汇阅读也会被放弃。研究结果表明，正常阅读通常是基于词汇的。然而，各种书写系统的特点在决定人们在不寻常情况下可能采用的策略方面是相关的。
