Abstract
Most quantitative models of visual word recognition assume that letter information
is directly combined with word knowledge to produce recognition of short words (3 - 5
letters). By contrast it has been argued that, for longer words, intermediate
units such as syllables and/or morphemes are involved. A lexical decision experiment
was carried out to investigate this issue. The stimuli were compound words and
nonwards made of a combination of lexical and nonlexieal parts. The fixation point
was varied within the stimuli. The results indicate that nonwards may indeed be
decomposed into their constituent parts. However, words appear to be recognized as
a whole, even while more information may be extracted from their initial than from
their final parts.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 90-96 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | IPO Annual Progress Report |
| Volume | 19 |
| Publication status | Published - 1984 |