Abstract
Participants read passages and circled instances of a target letter. They made more correct detections onthe when it was an adverb than when it was a definite article, when it occurred in a subject than in an object phrase, and when it was preposed than when it occurred normally. These results suggest that syntactic role affects letter detection even when meaning is controlled, and that giving greater syntactic prominence (i.e., salience or emphasis) affects letter detection even when both meaning and syntactic role are controlled. These findings pose a challenge to both the structural account of letter detection and the processing time account.
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