Lexical priming of nonword spelling in the regular orthography of Italian |
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| Authors: | Christopher Barry Pierluigi de Bastiani |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Psychology, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK;(2) Clinica Neurologica, University of Ferrara, Italy |
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| Abstract: | In pronounced contrast to English, Italian orthography contains extremely regular sound-to-spelling correspondences and therefore Italian words could, in principle, be spelled perfectly correctly using nonlexical phoneme-to-grapheme conversion rules alone. If this were so, then there should be no lexical influence upon nonword spelling. However, the present experiment reports lexical priming effects for two inconsistently spelled segments in Italian words: Italian participants were more likely to spell the nonword  tece as TECIE if they had just heard the word specie rather than pece and were more likely to spell the nonword cuodo as QUODO if they had heard the word quota rather than cuoco. These results suggest that Italian, despite its regular orthography, is not spelled purely nonlexically. It is argued that a dual-route model of spelling production can be applied to Italian. |
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| Keywords: | Dual-route model Italian Orthographic depth Sound-to-spelling rules Spelling |
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