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, t...

Phonological Typicality (PT) is a measure of the extent to which a word’s phonology is typical of other words in the lexical category to which it belongs. There is a general coherence among words from the same category in terms of speech sounds, and we have found that words that are phonologically typical of their category tend to be processed more quickly and accurately than words that are les...

Past studies have shown that nonwords homophonic to words can produce phonological priming (klip -CLIP), even when the primes are presented in a masked fashion (Ferrand & Grainger, 1992). This suggests that phonological codes are automatically activated and used in written word recognition. Here, we raise the possibility that in these experiments, subjects might have occasionally been aware of ...

Two-level phonology, as currently practiced, has two severe limitations. One is that phonological generalizations are generally expressed in terms of transition tables of finite-state automata, and these tables are cumbersome to develop and refine. The other is that lexical idiosyncrasy is encoded by introducing arbitrary diacritics into the spelling of a morpheme. This paper explains how phono...

The term  “ philosophy of research in applied linguistics” may be considered to cover a wide range of academically and philosophically important issues that have recently begun to capture the attention of scholars in research programs in their efforts, on the one hand, to reflect upon how they have traditionally approached their scientific practices and, on the other, to reconsider and redefine...

Many “histories” of linguistics have been written over the last two hundred years, and since the 1970s linguistic historiography has become a specialized subfield, with conferences, professional organizations, and journals of its own. Works on the history of linguistics often had such goals as defending a particular school of thought, promoting nationalism in various countries, or focussing on ...