Representation of Geminate Letters in Typed Word Production
Brody, Renee S.
2019
- Writing a word requires its spelling information to be retrieved as a set of abstract grapheme identities, and then for those graphemes to be held in working memory until articulation is finished. Geminate, or doubled, letters are not represented as independent copies, but rather are processed as a single unit on at least some level of the writing process. The present study compared typed ... read moreproduction of words with and without geminates in a partial replication of research by Kandel et al. (2013, 2014). Forty-two participants completed a spelling-to-dictation task, typing each target word three times in immediate succession. A typing-time corpus was constructed from the data. Mixed-effects models were used to analyze latencies and IKIs compared to expected values from the corpus. Geminate words had an inhibitory effect on word latencies, and a facilitatory effect on the IKIs of the 2nd and 3rd productions of targets. Effects of geminates on IKIs of the initial production were not significant, suggesting that the facilitatory and inhibitory effects canceled each other out during the initial production. The results are consistent with dual-loop processing models, but are not consistent with Kandel et al.'s findings of cascading effects.read less
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