The basis of consistency effects in word naming

摘要: Abstract Spelling-sound consistency effects have played an important role in recent theories of word recognition and naming. However, these not proven to be robust, calling into question whether mechanisms that deal with must incorporated We describe four experiments which words inconsistent spelling-sound correspondences yielded longer naming latencies than consistent correspondences. The studies also examined the computational basis effects; they depend on degree consistency, is mainly determined by properties a word's neighborhood, specifically relative frequencies “friends” “enemies.” Consistency did occur lexical decision task, suggesting are genuinely phonological effects. results interpreted within current models both frequency affect performance.