TY - JOUR
T1 - Lexical access and naming time
AU - Forster, K. I.
AU - Chambers, S. M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The pronunciation of a visually presented word involves assigning to a sequence of letters some kind of acoustic or articulatory coding. There are presumably two alternative ways in which this coding can be assigned. First, the pronunciation could be computed by application of a set ofgrapheme-phoneme, or letter-sound correspondence rules. This coding can be carried out independently of any consideration of the meaning or familiarity of the letter sequence, as in the pronunciation of previously unencountered sequences, such as flitch, mantiness, and streep. Alternatively, the pronunciation may be determined by searching long-term memory for stored information about how to pronounce familiar letter sequences, obtaining the necessary information by a direct dictionary look-up, instead of rule-application. Obviously, this procedure would work only for familiar words. Recently, Rubenstein, Lewis, and Ruben-stein (1971) have presented a model of lexical access which appears to be incompatible with 1 The research was supported by a grant to the senior author from the Australian Research Grants Committee. Reprints may be obtained from K. I. Forster, Department of Psychology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia.
PY - 1973/12
Y1 - 1973/12
N2 - Naming times and word-nonword classification times (lexical decision times) for samples of words, nonwords, and unfamiliar words were compared. It was found that naming times for words were shorter than for nonwords, and that naming times for high frequency words were shorter than for low frequency words, indicating that word naming occurred as a result of a lexical search procedure, rather than occurring prior to lexical search. It was also found that there was a positive correlation between naming times and lexical decision times for words, but not for nonwords. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the phonemic recoding hypothesis of Rubenstein, Lewis, and Rubenstein (1971).
AB - Naming times and word-nonword classification times (lexical decision times) for samples of words, nonwords, and unfamiliar words were compared. It was found that naming times for words were shorter than for nonwords, and that naming times for high frequency words were shorter than for low frequency words, indicating that word naming occurred as a result of a lexical search procedure, rather than occurring prior to lexical search. It was also found that there was a positive correlation between naming times and lexical decision times for words, but not for nonwords. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the phonemic recoding hypothesis of Rubenstein, Lewis, and Rubenstein (1971).
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-5371(73)80042-8
DO - 10.1016/S0022-5371(73)80042-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0015721451
SN - 0022-5371
VL - 12
SP - 627
EP - 635
JO - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
IS - 6
ER -