Immediate auditory repetition of words and nonwords: An ERP study of lexical and sublexical processing

Cheng, X., Schafer, G. and Riddell, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4916-2057 (2014) Immediate auditory repetition of words and nonwords: An ERP study of lexical and sublexical processing. PLOS ONE, 9 (3). e91988. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091988

Abstract/Summary

ERPs were elicited to (1) words, (2) pseudowords derived from these words, and (3) nonwords with no lexical neighbors, in a task involving listening to immediately repeated auditory stimuli. There was a significant early (P200) effect of phonotactic probability in the first auditory presentation, which discriminated words and pseudowords from nonwords; and a significant somewhat later (N400) effect of lexicality, which discriminated words from pseudowords and nonwords. There was no reliable effect of lexicality in the ERPs to the second auditory presentation. We conclude that early sublexical phonological processing differed according to phonotactic probability of the stimuli, and that lexically-based redintegration occurred for words but did not occur for pseudowords or nonwords. Thus, in online word recognition and immediate retrieval, phonological and/or sublexical processing plays a more important role than lexical level redintegration.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-pure-test.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/36255
Identification Number/DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0091988
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Central Services Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
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