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Macizo, Pedro; Van Petten, Cyma – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The importance of phonological syllables in recognition and pronunciation of visual words has been demonstrated in languages with a high degree of spelling-sound correspondence. In Spanish, multisyllabic words with frequent first syllables are named more quickly than those with less frequent first syllables, but receive slower lexical decisions.…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Syllables, Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes