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The influence of the phonological characteristics of a language on the functional units of reading: a study in French

dc.contributor.author Taft, Marcus en_US
dc.contributor.author Radeau, M en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T13:40:34Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T13:40:34Z
dc.date.issued 1995 en_US
dc.description.abstract Taft (1992) reported results supporting the idea that the "Body of the BOSS" (BOB) is an important unit in the visual recognition of English polysyllabic words. "BOSS" refers to the orthographically-defined first syllable of a word (e.g., the lam of lament); "Body" refers to the part of that syllable which follows the initial consonant(s) (e.g., the am of lam). The primary evidence supporting this notion was that the pronunciation of an ambiguously pronounceable nonword could be biased by the pronunciation of a preceding word when they shared their BOB, but not when they shared their phonologically-defined first syllable. Three experiments were conducted in French, to examine whether the syllable dominates as a unit of orthographic representation when the language has a clear phonological syllable structure. To construct ambiguously pronounceable nonwords, upper case letters were used and the first syllable always contained an E, which could be pronounced either as é or e. Nonwords (e.g., MERANE) were preceded by an upper case version of a word sharing a BOB (e.g., feroce) or a first syllable (e.g., méduse). The pronunciation of the nonword's E was biased by the syllable and not by the BOB, implying that the syllable, but not the BOB, is a relevant structure in the processing of visually presented French words. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1196-1961 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/40253
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title The influence of the phonological characteristics of a language on the functional units of reading: a study in French en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1196-1961.49.3.330 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Science
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 3 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 330-348 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 49 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Taft, Marcus, Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Radeau, M en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Psychology *
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