The Sound of Mute Vowels in AuditoryWord-Stem Completion  

Oleh:

Beland, Renee ; Prunet, Jean-Francois ; Peretz, Isabelle

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 38 no. 5 (Oct. 2009), page 415-434.
Topik: Mute vowel · Word-stem completion · Moraic writing system · Syllabary · Alphabet
Fulltext: vol. 38 issue 5 October 2009. p. 415 - 434.pdf (1.05MB)

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Some studies have argued that orthography can influence speakers when they perform oral language tasks. Words containing a mute vowel provide well-suited stimuli to investigate this phenomenon because mute vowels, such as the second in , are present orthographically but absent phonetically. Using an auditory word-stem completion task, we tested whether subjects were influenced by the presence ofmute vowels.We ran experiments in two languages which contain numerous mute-vowel words: Tigrinya, which uses a syllabic/moraic writing system, and French, which uses an alphabetic writing system. We argue that Tigrinya and French speakers based their completion on the sound form of words, rather than the written one.We suggest that the presence of mute vowels at the underlying phonological level, rather than their orthographic representation, influences speakers in the word-stem completion task. Some effects previously attributed to orthography may instead be attributable to underlying phonological representations.

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