Archive for March, 2009
Discrete Recitation: A New Window On Word Production
Continuous recitation of related word pairs (e.g. webwell) shows phonological competition exacerbated by lexical frequency in global measures but not in local duration measures. We devised a discrete variation where participants produced pairs to variable interval cues. Initiation times were sensitive, across eight consecutive productions, to relatedness, but only when high frequency words were present. Thus high frequency words trigger premonitory competition, and all words incur a slower phonological competition process during production.