Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LPL, UMR 7309, 13100, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS, Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain, Aix-Marseille Université, 5, avenue Pasteur, 13604, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2023 Jun;30(3):1053-1064. doi: 10.3758/s13423-022-02215-9. Epub 2022 Nov 16.
Nonwords created by transposing two phonemes of auditory words (e.g., /buʒãle/) are more effective primes for the corresponding base word target (/bulãʒe/) than nonword primes created by substituting two phonemes (e.g., /buvãʀe/). In one in-lab experiment and one online experiment using the short-term phonological priming paradigm, here, we examine the role of vowels and consonants in driving transposed-phoneme priming effects. Results showed that facilitatory transposed-phoneme priming occurs when the transposed phonemes are consonants (/buʒãle/-/bulãʒe/; /lubãʒe/-/bulãʒe/), but not when they are vowels (/bãluʒe/-/bulãʒe/; /buleʒã/-/bulãʒe/). These results add to existing findings showing differences in the processing of vowels and consonants during spoken and visual word recognition. We suggest that differences in the speed of processing of consonants and vowels combined with differences in the amount of information provided by consonants and vowels relative to the identity of the word being recognized provide a complete account of the present findings.
由听觉单词的两个音位转换而成的非单词（例如，/buʒãle/）比通过替换两个音位生成的非单词（例如，/buvãʀe/）更能有效地为相应的基础单词目标（/bulãʒe/）提供启动。在这里，我们使用短期语音启动范式在一个实验室实验和一个在线实验中检验了元音和辅音在驱动转音位启动效应中的作用。结果表明，当转换的音位为辅音时（/buʒãle/-/bulãʒe/；/lubãʒe/-/bulãʒe/），会产生促进转音位启动的效果，但当转换的音位为元音时（/bãluʒe/-/bulãʒe/；/buleʒã/-/bulãʒe/）则不会。这些结果增加了现有的发现，表明在口语和视觉单词识别过程中，元音和辅音的处理存在差异。我们认为，辅音和元音处理速度的差异，以及辅音和元音相对于被识别单词的身份提供的信息量的差异，为目前的发现提供了一个完整的解释。
