Strategic Deployment of Orthographic Knowledge in Phoneme Detection

Autor/inn/en	Cutler, Anne; Treiman, Rebecca; van Ooijen, Brit
Titel	Strategic Deployment of Orthographic Knowledge in Phoneme Detection
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 53 (2010) 3, S.307-320 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/0023830910371445
Schlagwörter	Phonemes; Word Recognition; Spelling; Orthographic Symbols; Auditory Perception; Reaction Time; English; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Cambridge) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonem; Worterkennung; Schreibweise; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Reaktionsvermögen; English language; Englisch; Ausland
Abstract	The phoneme detection task is widely used in spoken-word recognition research. Alphabetically literate participants, however, are more used to explicit representations of letters than of phonemes. The present study explored whether phoneme detection is sensitive to how target phonemes are, or may be, orthographically realized. Listeners detected the target sounds [b, m, t, f, s, k] in word-initial position in sequences of isolated English words. Response times were faster to the targets [b, m, t], which have consistent word-initial spelling, than to the targets [f, s, k], which are inconsistently spelled, but only when spelling was rendered salient by the presence in the experiment of many irregularly spelled filler words. Within the inconsistent targets [f, s, k], there was no significant difference between responses to targets in words with more usual ("foam", "seed", "cattle") versus less usual ("phone", "cede", "kettle") spellings. Phoneme detection is thus not necessarily sensitive to orthographic effects; knowledge of spelling stored in the lexical representations of words does not automatically become available as word candidates are activated. However, salient orthographic manipulations in experimental input can induce such sensitivity. We attribute this to listeners' experience of the value of spelling in everyday situations that encourage phonemic decisions (such as learning new names). (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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