Efectos diferenciales de la frecuencia silábicadependencia del tipo de prueba y característica de los estímulos

Abstract

Positional syllable frequency has been used in this study to discover its role in lexical processing and to illuminate the extent to which writing systems differ in the way they represent phonology and word recognition. Four experiments investigated the effects of lexicality, word frequency and positional syllable frequency on lexical decision and word-naming performance. Words composed of high frequency syllables delayed lexical decision compared with those composed of lower frequency syllables (Experiments 1 and 3). Results with the naming paradigm were the opposite. Syllable frequency facilitated naming (Experiments 2 and 4). The data suggest that different effects of syllable frequency in lexical decision tasks and naming are due to different processes involved in both. Whereas lexical decisions require lexical access, naming can be performed at prelexical levels.