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  • Auditory Perception
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • The visual word superiority effect demonstrates that letters in real words are recognized better than letters in non-words.
  • This phenomenon has been primarily studied in the visual domain.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the visual word superiority illusion extends to the auditory modality.
  • To examine the influence of native (L1) and second language (L2) on this auditory illusion.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted involving participants listening to word-word or word-pseudoword pairs.
  • Participants judged the relative loudness of stimuli presented in their L1 and L2.
  • Stimuli included real words and pseudowords of varying intensities.

Main Results:

  • The auditory word superiority illusion was replicated in both L1 and L2 across experiments.
  • The illusion was observed in native French speakers (L1 French, L2 English) and native English speakers (L1 English, L2 French).
  • The illusion's strength varied, being stronger in L1 for French speakers but similar across languages for English speakers.

Conclusions:

  • The visual word height superiority illusion can be observed in the auditory modality.
  • This suggests that the underlying cognitive mechanisms may be general rather than modality-specific.
  • Language proficiency and native language may influence the manifestation of this auditory illusion.