Limited role of contextual information in adult word recognition
Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu · 1987
Recognition latencies of single words were manipulated by repetition and/or degradation and the effects of context were observed in a pronunciation task. Repeated words were recognized faster than nonrepeated words, and yet were not any less affected by semantic context. The two degradation manipulations, namely, inserting asterisks between a word's letters and masking a word, slowed word recognition as compared to a clear presentation. However, only the masking manipulation produced contextual inhibition. The magnitude of context effects did not always vary monotonically with the word recognition latencies in the neutral condition. The implications of these findings for the time-locked and strategy versions of Stanovich and West's (1983) interactive compensatory model of reading were discussed. Durgunoglu