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A phonological relationship between a prime and a target produces facilitation when one or two initial phonemes are shared (low-similarity facilitation) but produces interference when more phonemes are shared (high-similarity interference; Slowiaczek & Hamburger, 1992). Although low-similarity facilitation appears to be a strategic effect (Goldinger, Luce, Pisoni, & Marcario, 1992), this result cannot generalize to high-similarity interference because the two effects are dissociated (Slowiaczek & Hamburger, 1992). In the present study, strategic processing in high-similarity interference was investigated. The phonological relatedness proportion (PRP) and the prime-target interstimulus interval (ISI) were varied in a shadowing experiment. Low-similarity facilitation was found only with a high PRP and long ISI, but high-similarity interference was found regardless of PRP and ISI. These results suggest that strategies influence low-similarity facilitation, but high-similarity interference reflects automatic processing.
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The research reported here was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant NS-29286 to the University at Albany, State University of New York. The authors thank Emily Soltano, John Munson, Kelly Romano, Kenya Strong, and Marc Frank for assistance in completing this project, and Jim Neely for comments on the manuscript.
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Hamburger, M., Slowiaczek, L.M. Phonological priming reflects lexical competition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 3, 520–525 (1996). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214558
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