Efeitos de vizinhança ortográfica no português brasileiro: um estudo com a tarefa de identificação perceptual

Francis Ricardo Dos Reis Justi,Antonio Roazzi

doi:10.1590/s0102-79722012000200012

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of Neighborhood Density (ND) and Neighborhood Frequency (NF) on visual word recognition in 32 Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Participants were given a standard perceptual identification task in which they had a 3-second time-limit for saying aloud what the target word was. Experimental stimuli consisted of 64 words according to an ND (2) x NF (2) factorial design. Higher percentages of errors were made for words with a higher frequency neighbor and lower percentages of errors were made for words with a high neighborhood density. It is argued that the results were due to ND and NF effects on lexical access and that they pose difficulties for Dual Route and PDP models of visual word recognition.

Highlights

This study investigated the effects of Neighborhood Density (ND) and Neighborhood Frequency (NF) on visual word recognition in 32 Brazilian Portuguese speakers
Na tentativa de compreender melhor o efeito de NF, Sears, Lupker et al (1999) desenvolveram mais dois experimentos com falantes da língua inglesa, porém, dessa vez, manipularam apenas NF, sendo que todas as palavras alvo tinham muitos vizinhos ortográficos e variavam em frequência de ocorrência
De acordo com as estatísticas de Justi e Justi (2008), existem 529 palavras de quatro a seis letras com frequência maior do que 100 ocorrências por milhão de palavras, se algum dos participantes optasse por usar a estratégia de “dizer a primeira palavra que lhe vier à mente” existiriam 529 palavras para ele “chutar” em quaisquer das condições experimentais, sendo que apenas sete dessas palavras são vizinhas ortográficas das palavras empregadas nesse estudo

Summary

Introduction

This study investigated the effects of Neighborhood Density (ND) and Neighborhood Frequency (NF) on visual word recognition in 32 Brazilian Portuguese speakers.

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