Differential effects of number of letters on word and nonword naming latency

Weekes, Brendan S.

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Differential effects of number of letters on word and nonword naming latency

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Weekes, Brendan S.·1997·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A

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The issue addressed in this study is whether there are differential effects of number of letters on word and nonword naming latency. Experiment 1 examined the effect of number of letters on latency for naming high-frequency words, low-frequency words, and nonwords. Number of letters affected latency for low-frequency words and nonwords but did not affect latency for high-frequency words. Number of letters was also negatively correlated with number of orthographic neighbours, number of friends, and average grapheme frequency. Number of letters continued to affect nonword naming latency, but not low-frequency word naming latency, after the effects of orthographic neighbourhood size, number of friends, and average grapheme frequency had been accounted for. Experiment 2 found that number of letters had no effect on the latency of delayed naming of the same words and nonwords. It is concluded that the effect of number of letters on nonword naming reflects a sequential, non-lexical reading mechanism.

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Within a range of about three to six letters, visual word recognition takes a constant time regardless of the number of letters composing that word.
“Also remarkable is the absence of any effect of word length: within a range of about three to six letters, visual word recognition takes a constant time regardless of the number of letters composing that word (Lavidor and Ellis, 2002; Weekes, 1997).”
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Authors: Weekes, B. S.
Affiliations: University of Kent (GB)
Corresponding author: Weekes, Brendan S.
ORCID: Weekes, Brendan S.
Venue: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 1997-05-01
Volume: 50
Issue: 2
Pages: 439-456
ISSN: 0272-4987 (ISSN-L)
1464-0740
DOI: 10.1080/027249897392170
OpenAlex: W1985090884
Cited by: 354
References: 39
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FWCI: 15.83
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Keywords: word frequency

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