Mathey Stéphanie, Doignon-Camus Nadège, Chetail Fabienne
Laboratoire de Psychologie, Université Bordeaux Segalen.
Can J Exp Psychol. 2013 Sep;67(3):205-14. doi: 10.1037/a0032456. Epub 2013 Aug 5.
This study investigated the processes underlying the effect of masked syllable priming in French with pseudoword primes and word targets. Two lexical-decision task (LDT) experiments examined whether the syllable priming effect depends on syllable frequency and might rely on a general abstract structure. The results of Experiment 1 revealed an inhibitory priming effect, with pseudoword primes and word targets sharing a high-frequency first syllable, which was not due to the abstract syllable structure. In contrast, no inhibition was observed with a low-frequency first syllable in Experiment 2. Syllable frequency appears to be an important factor determining the speed of target processing in masked priming. This is attributed to variations in the respective contributions of sublexical activation and lexical inhibition processes.
本研究调查了在法语中使用假词启动项和单词目标进行掩蔽音节启动效应背后的过程。两项词汇判断任务（LDT）实验检验了音节启动效应是否依赖于音节频率，以及是否可能依赖于一种通用的抽象结构。实验1的结果显示，当假词启动项和单词目标共享一个高频首音节时，会出现抑制性启动效应，这并非源于抽象的音节结构。相比之下，实验2中首音节为低频时未观察到抑制现象。音节频率似乎是决定掩蔽启动中目标加工速度的一个重要因素。这归因于次词汇激活和词汇抑制过程各自贡献的变化。
