Emily A. Lyons
Paul A. Luce
Lang. Percept. Lab., Dept. of Psychol., SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
At the previous meeting of the Society, data from an auditory lexical decision experiment were presented that demonstrated that subjects are faster to respond to bisyllabic words in which the first syllable is a word (e.g., KIDNEY) than to bisyllabic words in which the first syllable is a nonword (e.g., CHIMNEY). These findings suggest that the activation of component lexical items embedded in longer words has demonstrable effects on recognition time. Data from a single word shadowing experiment will be presented that replicate the previous findings from auditory lexical decision. These results provide further evidence for activation of sublexical units in spoken word recognition and demonstrate that sublexical activation has facilatory---not inhibitory---effects on recognition time. [Work supported by NIH Grant No. DC-00879-01 to the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo.]