Jared D, Seidenberg M S
McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 1990 Feb;16(1):92-105. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.16.1.92.
The process of reading multisyllabic words aloud from print was examined in 4 experiments. Experiment 1 used multisyllabic words that vary in terms of the consistency of component spelling-sound correspondences. The stimuli were regular, regular inconsistent, and exception words analogous to the monosyllabic items used in previous studies. Both regular inconsistent and exception words produced longer naming latencies than regular words. In Experiment 2 these differences between word types were found to be limited to lower frequency items. Experiment 3 showed that effects of number of syllables on naming latency are also limited to lower frequency words when the stimulus display forced subjects to use syllabic units. Thus, frequency modulates the effects of two aspects of lexical structure-consistency of spelling-sound correspondences and number of syllables. The results suggest that the naming of multisyllabic words draws on some of the same knowledge representations and processes as monosyllabic words; however, naming does not require syllabic decomposition. The results are discussed in the context of current models of naming.
在4项实验中对从印刷文字中大声读出多音节单词的过程进行了研究。实验1使用了在组成部分的拼写-发音对应一致性方面存在差异的多音节单词。刺激词包括规则词、规则不一致词和例外词，类似于先前研究中使用的单音节词项。规则不一致词和例外词的命名潜伏期都比规则词更长。在实验2中，发现这些词类之间的差异仅限于低频词项。实验3表明，当刺激显示迫使受试者使用音节单位时，音节数量对命名潜伏期的影响也仅限于低频词。因此，频率调节词汇结构两个方面的影响——拼写-发音对应一致性和音节数量。结果表明，多音节单词的命名利用了一些与单音节单词相同的知识表征和过程；然而，命名并不需要音节分解。在当前的命名模型背景下对结果进行了讨论。
