Dokument: The influence of orthography on spoken word processing
| Titel: | The influence of orthography on spoken word processing | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=60668 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20220919-124347-0 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Nayernia, Leila [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Indefrey, Peter [Gutachter] Prof. Dr. van de Vijver, Ruben [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 400 Sprache » 410 Linguistik | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | The influence of orthography on speech processing was investigated in five experiments. At the perceptual level, (pseudo)words containing phonological units with or without orthographic realizations were successfully discriminated by Persian literates and illiterates in AX and ABX discrimination experiments, suggesting no orthographic effects at this level. At the lexical level, orthographic effects were observed in a German AX discrimination experiment and a Persian primed lexical decision experiment. German homographic words were discriminated less accurately than German non-homographic words by German literates, but homography had no influence on the discrimination of German pseudowords suggesting an orthographic effect at the lexical level. Spelling similarity facilitated lexical decision latencies for embedded target words when they were preceded by embedding words, however, no facilitation was observed when embedding and embedded words had dissimilar spellings. At the intentional level, phonological units of words were manipulated more accurately when they were spelled than when they were not in Persian and German phoneme reversal experiments. In a phoneme monitoring experiment on Persian, phonemes with orthographic realizations were detected more accurately than phonemes without orthographic realizations when the phonemes were of mid or short durations, but phoneme detection was not a function of orthographic realizations in phonemes with long duration, suggesting that phonological and orthographic features of spoken words influence spoken word processing at the lexical and the intentional level.
Spelling transparency effects reported from written word naming experiments (Rahbari, 2019; Bakhtiar & Weekes, 2015) were not observed in a semantic categorization experiment using Persian written words, suggesting that phonological inconsistencies of graphemes can impair naming but not the semantic processing of written words. In another experiment, written pseudowords were named more accurately when they contained long vowels than when they contained pointed short vowels, suggesting reduced phonemic awareness for phonological units (Persian short vowels) that are not conventionally represented in spelling. Thus, phonological information can influence written word processing and spelling information can influence spoken word processing. A consistent pronunciation for the same spelling unit and a consistent spelling for the same phonological unit facilitate word processing. In sum, the findings suggest that lexical entries may undergo a developmental restructuring in terms of the combined phonological and orthographic features of words leading to a phonographic structure of the lexicon. | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Urheberrechtsschutz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät » Institut für Sprache und Information » Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 19.09.2022 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 19.09.2022 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 22.06.2022 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 06.09.2022 |
