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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Experimental Psychology

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  • Transposed-word effects demonstrate how word order influences language processing.
  • Previous research established transposed-word effects in grammatical decision and matching tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate transposed-word effects in a word-in-sequence identification task.
  • To compare word identification accuracy across correct sentences, transposed-word sequences, and control sequences.

Main Methods:

  • A word-in-sequence identification experiment with five simultaneously presented words.
  • Sequences included grammatically correct sentences, ungrammatical transposed-word sequences, and ungrammatical control sequences.
  • A post-cue indicated the target word's position for identification.

Main Results:

  • A transposed-word effect was observed: word identification was more accurate in transposed-word sequences than control sequences.
  • Word identification accuracy was highest in correct sentences, followed by transposed-word sequences, and then control sequences.
  • This suggests facilitatory feedback from sentence-level representations aids word identification.

Conclusions:

  • Sentence-level representations provide facilitatory feedback for word identification, influencing transposed-word effects.
  • The strength of this feedback is greater for correct sentences than for transposed-word sequences.
  • This study provides novel evidence for the impact of syntactic structure on early word identification processes.