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Carreiras, Manuel; Perea, Manuel – Brain and Language, 2004
Three naming experiments were conducted to examine the role of the first and the second syllable during speech production in Spanish. Facilitative effects of syllable frequency with disyllabic words have been reported in Dutch and Spanish (Levelt & Wheeldon, 1994; Perea & Carreiras, 1998). In both cases, the syllable frequency effect was…
Descriptors: Spanish, Syllables, Word Frequency, Experiments
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Shatzman, Keren B.; Schiller, Niels O. – Brain and Language, 2004
Models of speech production disagree on whether or not homonyms have a shared word-form representation. To investigate this issue, a picture-naming experiment was carried out using Dutch homonyms of which both meanings could be presented as a picture. Naming latencies for the low-frequency meanings of homonyms were slower than for those of the…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Hypothesis Testing, Models, Speech