Title: Homophone Dominance Modulates the Phonemic-Masking Effect
Abstract: Four experiments tested whether homophone dominance modulates the phonemic-masking effect. Dominance was estimated by the relative frequency of homophone pairs. Positive phonemic-masking effects occurred for dominant homophones, and null phonemic-masking effects occurred for subordinate homophones. Also, subordinate homophones were much more likely to be falsely identified as their dominant mate. The source of these null phonemic-masking effects was traced to a competition between the homophone's spelling mediated by their common phonology-a null phonemic-masking effect that is itself a phonology effect. These findings converge with a growing body of phonology effects produced under conditions thought to prejudice word perception against phonology. Phonology, thus, appears to supply mandatory constraints in the perception of printed words.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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