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SUBMITTER: Toscano JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3812303 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toscano Joseph C JC Anderson Nathaniel D ND McMurray Bob B
Psychonomic bulletin & review 20131001 5
Models of spoken word recognition assume that words are represented as sequences of phonemes. We evaluated this assumption by examining phonemic anadromes, words that share the same phonemes but differ in their order (e.g., sub and bus). Using the visual-world paradigm, we found that listeners show more fixations to anadromes (e.g., sub when bus is the target) than to unrelated words (well) and to words that share the same vowel but not the same set of phonemes (sun). This contrasts with the pre ...[more]