{"pk":29462,"title":"Is Segmental Interference Position-dependent?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The paper investigates the existence of position-independent\nsegments in written and typed word production. In two\nexperiments, we employed the segmental interference effect to\nfirst replicate past findings that naming a picture is more\ndifficult in the context of another picture with which it shares\nsegments in the same position (e.g., glow-flow) compared to\nan unrelated word (e.g., glow-cave). We then tested a new\ncondition, in which the same target word is paired with an\nanagram of the original competitor (glow-wolf). Critically, the\nanagram shared the same number of segments with the target\nword, but never in the same position. Both experiments found\nrobust interference for targets produced in the context of\nanagrams, with a magnitude comparable to the interference\ninduced by the position-overlapping word. The results suggest\nthat not only are position-independent segments represented in\nthe production system, but they also play a critical role in\nactivating segmentally related words and creating competition\nduring word production.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"word production; segmental encoding; positional\nframe; segmental interference"}],"section":"Reading and Processing","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7q1666s6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"","last_name":"Harrison","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Hepner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Nazbanou","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nozari","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29462/galley/19322/download/"}]}