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T1 Inhibitory effect of positional syllable frequency in Spanish 2nd and 4th readers.
A1 Luque, J. L.
A1 Álvarez González, Carlos Javier
A1 Bordoy,  S.
A1 Giménez, A.
A1 López-Pérez, P. J.
A1 López Zamora, M.
A2 Psicología CognitivaSocial y Organizacional
K1 lexical access
K1 literacy
K1 positional syllable frequency
K1 syllable frequency
AB The inhibitory effect of positional syllable frequency is a well-known phenomenon invisual word recognition: words with high-frequency syllables require extra time for deactivating the lexical syllabic neighbors. The inhibitory effect implies that a connection existsbetween graphemes, phonemes, the first syllable, and the phonological lexicon. However,experimental results of the first developmental stages of occurrence are scarce and inconclusive. A second- and fourth-grade sample of typical school readers participated in a lexical decision task containing high/low frequency words and high/low syllable frequencywords. Our primary hypothesis was that the inhibitory effect would be found on bothschool grade groups. We did not predict significant differences in magnitude of effectbetween second- and fourth-grade participants. A general inhibitory effect was found,and separate analyses by school grade groups also indicated significant inhibitory effects.Furthermore, second- and fourth-grade children showed small sizes of the inhibitoryeffect, resembling the sizes found in adult normal readers. Our results suggest thatSpanish readers reach a functional connection between syllables and words at an earlystage. The straightforward theoretical implication is that the inhibitory effect relies heavilyon the structural properties of the lexical access system that are acquired at an early age.
YR 2020
FD 2020
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RD 22-nov-2024