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T1 The contrastive value of lexical stress in visual word recognition: evidence from Spanish
A1 Domínguez Martínez, Alberto
A1 Cuetos Vega, Fernando
K1 Lexical stress
K1 Accent
K1 Repetition priming
K1 Visual word recognition
K1 Prelexical processing
AB Background: Many pairs of words in Spanish, in particular many verbalforms, differ only in the syllable stressed, such as aNImo (I encourage)and aniMÓ (he encouraged). Consequently, word stress may acquire alexical contrastive value that has been confi rmed by Dupoux, Pallier,Sebastian, and Mehler (1997) for Spanish speakers though not for Frenchspeakers in auditory perception. Method: This study contrasts the primingeffect produced by pairs of written words that differ only in their stresspattern with the priming effect in repetition priming, stress only priming(with no orthographic relation), and morphological priming, in visualword recognition. Results: The results, using short and masked primepresentation, showed facilitation for different stress (orthographicallyidentical) pairs (rasGÓ/RASgo) compared to totally unrelated pairs(dorMÍ/RASgo) but no facilitation compared to orthographically unrelated(but stress related) pairs (PERsa/RASgo). However, identity pairs (RASgoRASgo) produced facilitation compared to both orthographically unrelatedconditions. At long SOA, orthographically related (stress unrelated) pairsproduced signifi cant facilitation, as occurred with morphologically relatedpairs (RASga/RASgo), on the orthographically unrelated words (PERsa/RASgo). Conclusion: These results confi rm the early and prelexicalimportance of word stress for lexical selection in Spanish, as is the casewith orthographic and phonological features.
SN 0214 - 9915
YR 2018
FD 2018
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 17-may-2024