Multiple code activation in word recognition: Evidence from rhyme monitoring

Nolan, Suzanne D.; Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Seidenberg, Mark S.

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Title

Multiple code activation in word recognition: Evidence from rhyme monitoring

Author(s)

• Nolan, Suzanne D.
• Tanenhaus, Michael K.
• Seidenberg, Mark S.

Issue Date

1981-05

Keyword(s)

• rhymes
• orthographically similar rhymes
• word recognition

Abstract

"Seidenberg and Tanenhaus (1979) reported that orthographically similar rhymes were detected more rapidly than dissimilar rhymes in a rhyme monitoring task with auditory stimulus presentation. The present experiments investigated the hypothesis that these results were due to a rhyme production-frequency bias in favor of similar rhymes that was present in their materials. In three experiments, subjects monitored short word lists for the word that rhymed with a cue presented prior to each list. All stimuli were presented auditorily. Cue-target rhyme production frequency was equated for orthographically similar and dissimilar rhymes. Similar rhymes were detected more rapidly in all three experiments, indicating that orthographic information was accessed in auditory word recognition. The results suggest that multiple codes are automatically accessed in word recognition. This entails a reinterpretation of phonological ""recoding"" in visual word recognition."

Publisher

• Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for the Study of Reading.
• Cambridge, Mass. : Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.

Series/Report Name or Number

Center for the Study of Reading Technical Report ; no. 204

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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