{"pk":21686,"title":"Is There Flexibility in Letter-Position Encoding in Hindi? Evidence from Masked Form Priming Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recognizing written words involves identifying individual\nletters, as well as keeping track of specific positions of the\nletters. Interestingly, some languages show flexibility in letter-\nposition encoding which is inferred by the observation that\npseudowords formed by transposing internal letters of a word\n(e.g., jugde-JUDGE) can facilitate recognition of the given\nword. While research in English and other Indo-European\nlanguages have shown that readers can cope with such\nviolations in the canonical order of letters in a word, research\nfrom other languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Korean\nshow contrasting results. Such scenario creates a need of more\nresearch from different writing systems of the world, so that a\nuniversal model of word-recognition can be built. Therefore, in\nthe current study, we investigated flexibility in letter-position\nencoding in Hindi (Devanagari script). Interestingly, we found\nevidence for flexibility in letter position encoding in Hindi\nsimilar to English and other Indo-European languages.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Language understanding; Reading; Computer-based experiment"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k826851","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Suraj","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kumar","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Anurag","middle_name":"","last_name":"Khare","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Ark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Verma","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21686/galley/11285/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21686/galley/22079/download/"}]}