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In two experiments, we examined the use of phonological information in naming in English. In both experiments, a priming technique was used. Primes and targets were both graphemically and phonemically similar, only phonemically similar, or unrelated. The results of Experiment 1 did not reveal a significant priming effect. The same design and materials were used in Experiment 2, but this time, the context was forward masked. Again, the results of Experiment 2 showed no existence of a phonological priming effect. These negative outcomes extend the failure of Martin and Jensen (1988) to obtain rhyming effects in the lexical decision task with English words, and they are contrary to recent investigations with Serbo-Croatian words (Lukatela & Turvey, 1990).
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This research was supported in part by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grants HD-08495 and HD-01994 to the University of Belgrade and Haskins Laboratories, respectively.
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Peter, M., Lukatela, G. & Turvey, M.T. Phonological priming: Failure to replicate in the rapid naming task. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 389–392 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334046
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