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In two experiments, subjects read passages of text and circled instances of a target letter under normal conditions or while engaged in articulatory suppression. In Experiment 1, subjects searching for the letter e made a disproportionately large number of errors on the word “the” and more errors when e occurred in unstressed than in stressed syllables of three-syllable words. In Experiment 2, subjects searching for the letter f made an exceedingly large number of errors on the word “of.” Articulatory suppression significantly reduced the stress effect in the three-syllable words but did not reduce the tendency to make errors on “the” or “of,” suggesting that phonological recoding is responsible for this effect of stress but does not influence the unitization processes of reading.
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The research reported here was supported in part by NSF Grant BNS80-25020 to the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Goldman, H.B., Healy, A.F. Detection errors in a task with articulatory suppression: Phonological receding and reading. Memory & Cognition 13, 463–468 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198459
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