What are the letters e and é in a language with vowel reduction? the case of Catalan
Authors: Marcet, A., Fernández-López, M., Baciero, A., Sesé, A. and Perea, M.
Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 193-210
eISSN: 1469-1817
ISSN: 0142-7164
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716421000497
Abstract:Although the Latin-based orthographies of most Western languages employ vowels with accent marks (e.g., é vs. e), extant models of letter and word recognition are agnostic as to whether these accented letters and their non-accented counterparts are represented by common or separate abstract units. Recent research in French with a masked priming alphabetic decision task was interpreted as favoring the idea that accented and non-accented vowels are represented by separate abstract orthographic units (orthographic account: é↛e and e↛é; Chetail & Boursain, 2019). However, a more parsimonious explanation is that salient (accented) vowels are less perceptually similar to non-salient (non-accented) vowels than vice versa (perceptual account: e→é, but é↛e; Perea et al., 2021a; Tversky, 1977). To adjudicate between the two accounts, we conducted a masked priming alphabetic decision experiment in Catalan, a language with a complex orthography-to-phonology mapping for non-accented vowels (e.g., e→/e/, /ə/, / /). Results showed faster responses in the identity than in the visually similar condition for accented targets (é-É < e-É), but not for non-accented targets (e-E = é-E). Neither of the above accounts can fully capture this pattern. We propose an explanation based on the rapid activation of both orthographic and phonological codes.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36728/
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What are the letters e and e in a language with vowel reduction? The case of Catalan
Authors: Marcet, A., Fernandez-Lopez, M., Baciero, A., Sese, A. and Perea, M.
Journal: APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 193-210
eISSN: 1469-1817
ISSN: 0142-7164
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716421000497
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36728/
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What are the letters e and é in a language with vowel reduction? the case of Catalan
Authors: Marcet, A., Fernández-López, M., Baciero, A., Sesé, A. and Perea, M.
Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 193-210
eISSN: 1469-1817
ISSN: 0142-7164
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716421000497
Abstract:Although the Latin-based orthographies of most Western languages employ vowels with accent marks (e.g., é vs. e), extant models of letter and word recognition are agnostic as to whether these accented letters and their non-accented counterparts are represented by common or separate abstract units. Recent research in French with a masked priming alphabetic decision task was interpreted as favoring the idea that accented and non-accented vowels are represented by separate abstract orthographic units (orthographic account: é↛e and e↛é; Chetail & Boursain, 2019). However, a more parsimonious explanation is that salient (accented) vowels are less perceptually similar to non-salient (non-accented) vowels than vice versa (perceptual account: e→é, but é↛e; Perea et al., 2021a; Tversky, 1977). To adjudicate between the two accounts, we conducted a masked priming alphabetic decision experiment in Catalan, a language with a complex orthography-to-phonology mapping for non-accented vowels (e.g., e→/e/, /ə/, / /). Results showed faster responses in the identity than in the visually similar condition for accented targets (é-É < e-É), but not for non-accented targets (e-E = é-E). Neither of the above accounts can fully capture this pattern. We propose an explanation based on the rapid activation of both orthographic and phonological codes.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36728/
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What are the letters e and é in a language with vowel reduction? the case of Catalan
Authors: Marcet, A., Fernández-López, M., Baciero, A., Sesé, A. and Perea, M.
Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 193-210
ISSN: 0142-7164
Abstract:Although the Latin-based orthographies of most Western languages employ vowels with accent marks (e.g., é vs. e), extant models of letter and word recognition are agnostic as to whether these accented letters and their non-accented counterparts are represented by common or separate abstract units. Recent research in French with a masked priming alphabetic decision task was interpreted as favoring the idea that accented and non-accented vowels are represented by separate abstract orthographic units (orthographic account: é↛e and e↛é; Chetail & Boursain, 2019). However, a more parsimonious explanation is that salient (accented) vowels are less perceptually similar to non-salient (non-accented) vowels than vice versa (perceptual account: e→é, but é↛e; Perea et al., 2021a; Tversky, 1977). To adjudicate between the two accounts, we conducted a masked priming alphabetic decision experiment in Catalan, a language with a complex orthography-to-phonology mapping for non-accented vowels (e.g., e→/e/, /ə/, / /). Results showed faster responses in the identity than in the visually similar condition for accented targets (é-É < e-É), but not for non-accented targets (e-E = é-E). Neither of the above accounts can fully capture this pattern. We propose an explanation based on the rapid activation of both orthographic and phonological codes.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36728/
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