Laboratoire Cognition Langage et Développement (LCLD), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av.F. Roosevelt, 50, CP 191, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2011 Oct;18(5):951-7. doi: 10.3758/s13423-011-0138-1.
The concept of syllabic neighbours (words sharing the same first syllable) is central in the interpretive framework of syllabic effects in visual word recognition. However, the definition of this concept remains surprisingly vague, so it is not clear whether or not syllabic competition is driven by words of similar syllabic length. The present study aimed to refine the definition by investigating the effect of higher-frequency syllabic neighbourhood as a function of syllabic neighbour length (similar syllabic length to the target words vs. any syllabic length). In both standard and go/no-go lexical decision tasks, the data showed that increasing the number of higher-frequency syllabic neighbours had an influence only when this number was computed from words of the same syllabic length as the target. Syllabic neighbours may therefore be considered as words sharing the first syllable and the total number of syllables with the target. Implications for accounts of syllable neighbourhood effects are discussed.
音节邻居（共享相同首音节的单词）的概念是视觉词汇识别中音节效应解释框架的核心。然而，这个概念的定义仍然非常模糊，因此不清楚音节竞争是否是由具有相似音节长度的单词驱动的。本研究旨在通过调查更高频率的音节邻居的作用，来完善这个定义，作为音节邻居长度的函数（与目标词相似的音节长度与任何音节长度）。在标准和是否识别词汇的词汇决策任务中，数据表明，只有当更高频率的音节邻居数量是从与目标词具有相同音节长度的词中计算出来时，这个数量才会对数据产生影响。因此，音节邻居可以被认为是与目标词共享首音节和总音节数的单词。本文讨论了音节邻居效应的解释的影响。
