Initial Consonant Groups Function as Units in Word Production
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 17 (3), 271-277
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383097401700305
Abstract
Subjects were presented with single consonants, consonant-consonant pairs and consonant-vowel pairs, and asked to produce words beginning with these letters. Three presentation methods were used: visual tachistoscopic, acoustic with the letters " spelled ", and acoustic with the letters pronounced as they would be in a word. Latency measures revealed that the acoustic " spelling " condition took longer than the other two, and consonant-vowel took longer than consonant-consonant. These results are interpreted as supporting a conception of verbal memory in which initial consonant clusters are stored as integral units.Keywords
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