The onset effect in word naming

Schiller, Niels O.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2004.02.004

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The onset effect in word naming

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Schiller, Niels O.
Language Production Group Levelt, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Utterance Encoding, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Schiller, N. O. (2004). The onset effect in word naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 50(4), 477-490. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2004.02.004.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-15F3-2

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This study investigates whether or not masked form priming effects in the naming task depend on the number of shared segments between prime and target. Dutch participants named bisyllabic words, which were preceded by visual masked primes. When primes shared the initial segment(s) with the target, naming latencies were shorter than in a control condition (string of percent signs). Onset complexity (singleton vs. complex word onset) did not modulate this priming effect in Dutch. Furthermore, significant priming due to shared final segments was only found when the prime did not contain a mismatching onset, suggesting an interfering role of initial non-target segments. It is concluded that (a) degree of overlap (segmental match vs. mismatch), and (b) position of overlap (initial vs. final) influence the magnitude of the form priming effect in the naming task. A modification of the segmental overlap hypothesis (Schiller, 1998) is proposed to account for the data.