dc.contributor.author | Perea, Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Abu Mallouh, Reem | |
dc.contributor.author | Mohammed, Ahmed | |
dc.contributor.author | Khalifa, Batoul | |
dc.contributor.author | Carreiras, Manuel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-23T17:07:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-23T17:07:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Perea M, Abu Mallouh R, Mohammed A, Khalifa B and Carreiras M (2016) Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic? Front. Psychol. 7:1255. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01255 | es |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/19583 | |
dc.description | Published: 22 August 2016 | |
dc.description.abstract | A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various groups of letters that share the same basic shape and only differ in the number/location of diacritical points. We conducted a masked priming lexical decision experiment in which a target word was preceded by: (i) an identity prime; (ii) a prime in which the critical letter was replaced by a letter with the same shape that differed in the number of diacritics (e.g., ); or (iii) a prime in which the critical letter was replaced by a letter with different shape (e.g., ). Results showed a sizable advantage of the identity condition over the two substituted-letter priming conditions (i.e., diacritical information is rapidly processed). Thus, diacritical marks play an essential role in the “feature letter” level of models of visual word recognition in Arabic. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research reported in this article has been supported by Grant NPRP No. 6-378-5–035 from Qatar Foundation. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Frontiers in Psychology | es |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.subject | lexical access | es |
dc.subject | masked priming | es |
dc.subject | visual-letter similarity | es |
dc.subject | lexical decision | es |
dc.title | Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic? | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright © 2016 Perea, Abu Mallouh, Mohammed, Khalifa and Carreiras. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/psychology | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01255 | |
dc.subject.categoria | PSYCHOLOGY | |