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Does vowel harmony affect visual word recognition? Evidence from Finnish
Manuel Perea1, Jukka Hyönä2, Ana Marcet3
1Department of Psychology, Universitat de València.
Summary
Finnish vowel harmony influences word recognition, but not in the initial processing stages. Readers are slower to recognize harmonious pseudowords, indicating sensitivity to this feature later in visual word processing.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Phonology
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Finnish exhibits vowel harmony, a morpho-phonological constraint where front and back vowels cannot coexist in monomorphemic words.
- Vowel harmony aids in segmenting compound words in Finnish, suggesting its role in lexical processing.
- Previous research indicates native speakers utilize vowel harmony for word segmentation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the effect of vowel harmony on the initial stages of monomorphemic word processing in Finnish.
- To examine whether vowel harmony influences visual word recognition at later processing phases.
Main Methods:
- Masked priming technique (lexical decision and naming tasks) to assess initial word processing.
- Comparison of responses to harmonious and disharmonious primes.
- Lexical decision task with harmonious and disharmonious pseudowords to evaluate later processing stages.
Main Results:
- No significant effect of vowel harmony was found in the initial moments of monomorphemic word processing (Experiments 1 & 2).
- Slower responses were observed for harmonious pseudowords compared to disharmonious pseudowords in a later processing task (Experiment 3).
Conclusions:
- Finnish readers demonstrate sensitivity to vowel harmony.
- The effect of vowel harmony on word processing emerges at later stages, not during initial recognition.
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