Cm. Herdman et al., IMPLICATING THE LEXICON - BASE-WORD FREQUENCY-EFFECTS IN PSEUDOHOMOPHONE NAMING, Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 20(3), 1994, pp. 575-590
Ss named pseudohomophones (e.g., phocks) and nonpseudohomophones (e.g.
, snocks) under conditions in which words were or were not included in
the stimulus lists. For Ss classified as fast responders, pseudohomop
hone advantages were not accompanied with base-word frequency effects.
For slow responders, pseudohomophone naming was related to base-word
frequency, but only when words were included in the stimulus lists. A
dual-route model is proposed in which (a) lexical representations are
frequency sensitive, (b) the relative use of nonlexical vs. lexical in
formation in phonological synthesis depends on strategic factors, and
(c) overlapping lexical and nonlexical codes are assumed to lengthen p
rocessing time at the level of a phonological buffer.