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Émilie Laplante; Valérie Geraghty; Emalie Hendel; René-Pierre Sonier; Dominic Guitard; Jean Saint-Aubin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
When readers are asked to detect a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss it more frequently when it is embedded in a frequent function word than in a less frequent content word. This missing-letter effect has been used to investigate the cognitive processes involved in reading. A similar effect, called the missing-phoneme effect…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Written Language, Phonemes, Morphology (Languages)
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Grama, Ileana C.; Kerkhoff, Annemarie; Wijnen, Frank – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The ability to detect non-adjacent dependencies (i.e. between "a" and "b" in "aXb") in spoken input may support the acquisition of morpho-syntactic dependencies (e.g. "The princess 'is' kiss'ing' the frog"). Functional morphemes in morpho-syntactic dependencies are often marked by perceptual cues that render…
Descriptors: Role, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Cues