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4163 ORAL
Language, reading and communication
Chair: Arnaud Rey, France
4163.1 Phonological conversion in reading operates at multiple levels, Arnaud Rey, Muriele
Brand, Ronald Peereman, Lead - Cnrs, Universit?De Bourgogne, Dijon, France
The dual route model propounded by Coltheart et al. (2001) assumes a grapheme-phoneme
conversion process in which multi-letter graphemes are isolated sequentially through
letter-by-letter concatenation. We report the results of a phoneme detection task showing that all
letters of multi-letter graphemes cause phonemic activation. We also show that letter detection is
harder when embedded in a two-letter than in a one-letter syllable onset (i.e., L in TABLIER or
ECOLIER). Together the data suggest that print-to-sound conversion operates at multiple levels of
word segmentation.
4163.2 Orthographic and phonological effects in picture-word interference paradigm, Yanchao
Bi 1 , Yaoda Xu 2 , Alfonso Caramazza 1 , 1 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA,
2
Yale University, USA
It is well known that picture naming performance is facilitated by distractors relate to the picture
name by formal properties. There is no consensus yet about the locus of the effect. With Mandarin
Chinese, we found that both phonological and orthographic relation facilitate picture naming on
their own, even when the effect of non-lexical grapheme-phoneme-correspondence was ruled out
(Experiment 1&2). The phonological effect stays the same across three SOAs while the
orthographic effect diminishes from negative to positive SOA (Experiment3). It shows that the
formal facilitation effect in picture-word interference in the literature is a mixed effect with
multiple loci.
4163.3 Children’s use of phonological information in families of Chinese characters, Xi Chen 1 ,
Hong Li 2 , Hua Shu 2 , Richard Anderson 1 , 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA,
2
Beijing Normal University, China
This study examined children’s use of phonological information in phonetic families. A family is a
group of semantic-phonetic compound characters with the same phonetic. 120 fourth and sixth
graders learned to read characters from three types of families: consistent, semi-consistent, and
inconsistent. Characters in a consistent family had the same pronunciation. Some but not all the
characters in a semi-consistent family had the same pronunciation. Characters in an inconsistent
family had different pronunciations. Children learned consistent families faster than the
semi-consistent families, followed by inconsistent families. Children’s predictions of unfamiliar
characters in a transfer task were affected by family consistency.
4163.4 Dynamic mental representation in discourse processing, Chen Qu, Lei Mo, Shaozhen
Tan, Department of Psychology, South China Normal University, China
The role of Dynamic mental representation in language comprehension was examined. Total three
experiments used a sentence-probe-recognition paradigm in which the relations between probe and
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