Consonant, vowel and lexical neighbourhood processing during word recognition: New evidence using the sandwich priming technique

Does consonant–vowel skeletal structure play a role early in lexical processing? Evidence from masked priming

Is the specific consonant–vowel (CV) letter combination of a word a basic source of information for lexical access in the early stages of processing? We designed two masked priming lexical decision experiments to respond to this question bydirectly examining the role ofCVskeletal structure inwrittenword recognition. To that aim, each target word was preceded by a one-letter different nonword pr...

The time course of consonant and vowel processing during word recognition

The time course of consonant and vowel processing during word recognition Boris New a b & Thierry Nazzi a c a Institut de Psychologie, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France b Laboratoire Vision Action Cognition, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France c Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (CNRS), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France Version of record f...

Applied Psycholinguistics, in press Does consonant-vowel skeletal structure play a role early in lexical processing? Evidence from masked priming

Does letter position coding depend on consonant/vowel status? Evidence with the masked priming technique.

Recently, a number of input coding schemes (e.g., SOLAR model, SERIOL model, open-bigram model, overlap model) have been proposed that capture the transposed-letter priming effect (i.e., faster response times for jugde-JUDGE than for jupte-JUDGE). In their current version, these coding schemes do not assume any processing differences between vowels and consonants. However, in a lexical decision...

A consonant/vowel asymmetry in word-for processing: evidence in childhood and in adulthood.

In the literature, consonants have been proposed to be more important than vowels in lexical activation and access processes. However, despite a large body of evidence in the infant and adult literature, a recent study revealed a disappearance of the bias in newly learned words over the preschool years (Havy, Bertoncini, & Nazzi, 2011). As a first explanation of this developmental change, one m...