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In a phonological priming experiment using spoken Dutch words, Dutch listeners were taught varying expectancies and relatedness relations about the phonological form of target words, given particular primes. They learned to expect that, after a particular prime, if the target was a word, it would be from a specific phonological category. The expectancy either involved phonological overlap (e.g.,honk-vonk, “base-spark”; expected related) or did not (e.g.,nest-galm, “nest-boom”; expected unrelated, where the learned expectation after hearingnest was a word rhyming in -alm). Targets were occasionally inconsistent with expectations. In these inconsistent expectancy trials, targets were either unrelated (e.g.,honk-mest, “base-manure”; unexpected unrelated), where the listener was expecting a related target, or related (e.g.,nest-pest, “nest-plague”; unexpected related), where the listener was expecting an unrelated target. Participant expectations and phonological relatedness were thus manipulated factorially for three types of phonological overlap (rhyme, one onset phoneme, and three onset phonemes) at three interstimulus intervals (ISIs; 50, 500, and 2,000 msec). Lexical decisions to targets revealed evidence of expectancy-based strategies for all three types of overlap (e.g., faster responses to expected than to unexpected targets, irrespective of phonological relatedness) and evidence of automatic phonological processes, but only for the rhyme and three-phoneme onset overlap conditions and, most strongly, at the shortest ISI (e.g., faster responses to related than to unrelated targets, irrespective of expectations). Although phonological priming thus has both automatic and strategic components, it is possible to cleave them apart.
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This research was supported in part by visiting scholarships from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft to the second author.
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Mcqueen, J.M., Sereno, J. Cleaving automatic processes from strategic biases in phonological priming. Memory & Cognition 33, 1185–1209 (2005). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193222
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