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Theories of Word Naming Interact with Spelling-Sound Consistency.
Authors:
Strain, E, PATTERSON, K. & Seidenberg, M.S.
Reference:
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 28, 207-214
Year of publication:
2002
CBU number:
5200
Abstract:
In a previous study (Strain, Patterson & Seidenberg, 1995), the authors concluded that word naming is characterized by an interaction between spelling-sound typicality and word imageability, thus implicating a role for word meaning in the naming process. Monaghan and Ellis (2002) reject our conclusion, arguing that it is age of acquisition AoA)and not imageability that interacts with spelling-sound typicality. In this article, we question their alternative interpretation (a) by raising a number of conceptual and methodological issues germane to this debate, and (b) by presenting new data that confirm a significant interaction between spelling-sound typicality and imageability in word-naming latencies, an interaction that is reliable when word AoA is controlled in a regression analysis.
