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dc.contributor.authorPerea, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorAbu Mallouh, Reem
dc.contributor.authorMohammed, Ahmed
dc.contributor.authorKhalifa, Batoul
dc.contributor.authorCarreiras, Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-05T11:46:31Z
dc.date.available2018-02-05T11:46:31Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationManuel Perea, Reem Abu Mallouh, Ahmed Mohammed, Batoul Khalifa, Manuel Carreiras, Does visual letter similarity modulate masked form priming in young readers of Arabic?, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 169, May 2018, Pages 110-117, ISSN 0022-0965, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.004.es_ES
dc.identifier.issn0022-0965
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/24826
dc.descriptionAvailable online 19 January 2018 Supplementary data associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at https://doi. org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.004.es_ES
dc.descriptionSupplementary data associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at https://doi. org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.004.
dc.description.abstractWe carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally suited to test these effects because most Arabic letters share their basic shape with at least one other letter and differ only in the number/position of diacritical points (e.g., ض - ص ;ظ - ط ;غ - ع ;ث - ت - ن ب ;ذ - د ;خ - ح - ج ;ق - ف ;ش - س ;ز - ر). We created two one-letter-different priming conditions for each target word, in which a letter from the consonantal root was substituted by another letter that did or did not keep the same shape (e.g., خدمة - حدمة vs. خدمة - فدمة). Another goal of the current experiment was to test the presence of masked orthographic priming effects, which are thought to be unreliable in Semitic languages. To that end, we included an unrelated priming condition. We found a sizable masked orthographic priming effect relative to the unrelated condition regardless of visual letter similarity, thereby revealing that young readers are able to quickly process the diacritical points of Arabic letters. Furthermore, the presence of masked orthographic priming effects in Arabic suggests that the word identification stream in Indo-European and Semitic languages is more similar than previously thought.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was made possible by a National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) award (Grant No. 6-378-5-035z) from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of the Qatar Foundation).es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherJournal of Experimental Child Psychologyes_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.subjectLexical accesses_ES
dc.subjectMasked priminges_ES
dc.subjectDeveloping readerses_ES
dc.subjectVisual similarityes_ES
dc.subjectLexical decisiones_ES
dc.titleDoes visual letter similarity modulate masked form priming in young readers of Arabic?es_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.rights.holder© 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-experimental-child-psychologyes_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.004


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