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*Result*: Same same but different: The graded influence of vowel quality and prosodic prominence on letter detection.

Title:
Same same but different: The graded influence of vowel quality and prosodic prominence on letter detection.
Authors:
Hasenäcker J; Linguistics Department, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany., Domahs F; Linguistics Department, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
Source:
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) [Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)] 2025 Sep; Vol. 78 (9), pp. 1909-1920. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 15.
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Sage in association with Experimental Psychology Society Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101259775 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1747-0226 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 17470218 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Publication: 2018- : London : Sage in association with Experimental Psychology Society
Original Publication: London : Informa Healthcare
MeSH Terms:
Phonetics* , Pattern Recognition, Visual*/physiology , Reading*, Humans ; Male ; Female ; Young Adult ; Adult ; Reaction Time/physiology ; Photic Stimulation ; Psycholinguistics ; Analysis of Variance
Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Letter search; lexical stress; phonological processing; prosodic prominence; visual word recognition
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20241023 Date Completed: 20250901 Latest Revision: 20250901
Update Code:
20260130
PubMed Central ID:
PMC12335630
DOI:
10.1177/17470218241293742
PMID:
39439037
Database:
MEDLINE

*Further Information*

*This study investigates the impact of phonetic realisation and prosodic prominence on visual letter identification, focusing on the letter <e> in German bisyllabic words. Building upon previous research, a computerised letter search task was conducted with 78 skilled adult readers. Words featuring different phonetic realisations of <e > (/eː, ɛ, e, l̩, n̩, ɐ/) in stressed and unstressed first and second syllables were systematically included. Analyses of error rates and response times revealed a graded pattern in the detection of <e>, with the closed long (/eː/) and closed short (/e/) realisations being easiest to detect, open (/ɛ/) and near-open central (/ɐ/) vowels becoming incrementally harder, and silent vowels in syllabic consonants (/n̩/) being the most challenging. Results divided by position and stress of the syllable containing the target letter further indicated influences of prosodic prominence. The findings contribute to understanding the intricate interplay of grapheme-phoneme correspondences and prosodic structure in skilled readers' visual letter recognition.*

*Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.*