The Role of Semantics in Spanish Word Recognition: an Insight from Lexical Decision and Categorization Tasks

This study examines the factors affecting word recognition in a language with a consistent system to map letters into sounds; Spanish. The influence of semantics on the recognition of words in languages with inconsistent mappings, such as English, is well documented. Not much is known for other lang...

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Main Authors: Izura Cristina, Hernández-Muñoz Natividad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-10-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0025