Chetail Fabienne, Balota David, Treiman Rebecca, Content Alain
a Laboratoire Cognition Langage Développement , Centre de Recherche Cognition et Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Brussels , Belgium.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2015;68(8):1519-40. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2014.963628. Epub 2014 Nov 7.
Although the majority of research in visual word recognition has targeted single-syllable words, most words are polysyllabic. These words engender special challenges, one of which concerns their analysis into smaller units. According to a recent hypothesis, the organization of letters into groups of successive consonants (C) and vowels (V) constrains the orthographic structure of printed words. So far, evidence has been reported only in French with factorial studies of relatively small sets of items. In the present study, we performed regression analyses on corpora of megastudies (English and British Lexicon Project databases) to examine the influence of the CV pattern in English. We compared hiatus words, which present a mismatch between the number of syllables and the number of groups of adjacent vowel letters (e.g., client), to other words, controlling for standard lexical variables. In speeded pronunciation, hiatus words were processed more slowly than control words, and the effect was stronger in low-frequency words. In the lexical decision task, the interference effect of hiatus in low-frequency words was balanced by a facilitatory effect in high-frequency words. Taken together, the results support the hypothesis that the configuration of consonant and vowel letters influences the processing of polysyllabic words in English.
尽管视觉单词识别的大多数研究都针对单音节词，但大多数单词都是多音节的。这些单词带来了特殊的挑战，其中之一涉及将它们分析为更小的单位。根据最近的一个假设，将字母组织成连续的辅音（C）和元音（V）组会限制印刷单词的正字法结构。到目前为止，只有在法语中通过对相对较小的项目集进行析因研究报告了相关证据。在本研究中，我们对大型研究语料库（英语和英国词汇项目数据库）进行了回归分析，以检验CV模式在英语中的影响。我们将在音节数量和相邻元音字母组数量之间存在不匹配的元音间断词（例如client）与其他单词进行了比较，并控制了标准词汇变量。在快速发音中，元音间断词的处理速度比对照词慢，并且在低频词中这种影响更强。在词汇判断任务中，低频词中元音间断的干扰效应被高频词中的促进效应所平衡。综上所述，结果支持了辅音和元音字母的配置会影响英语中多音节词处理的这一假设。
