1. Are syllables used in processing Spanish?
Dominguez, Alberto, Manuel de Vega, and Fernando Cuetos Lexical inhibition from syllabic units in Spanish visual word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes

2. Introduction
Seeing a word influences the recognition of a subsequent word if:
The word is semantically related (nurse-doctor)
The word is morphologically related (sing-singing)
The word is orthographically related (burn-burps)

3. Introduction
Seeing a word influences the recognition of a subsequent word if:
The word is semantically related (nurse-doctor)
The word is morphologically related (sing-singing)
The word is orthographically related (burn-burps)
The influence can either speed or slow recognition

4. Research Question Is the syllable used in word processing?
If so it should influence word recognition

5. Hypothesis
Seeing a word with the same syllable structure will influence the speed at which a subsequent word is recognized.
Seeing a word with a different syllable structure will not influence the reaction time.

6. Method Lexical Decision Task
Subjects see real words and nonce words on the screen. They press one key if the word is real and another if it is not real

7. Method Lexical Decision Task
Subjects see real words and nonce words on the screen. They press one key if the word is real and another if it is not real
Time to recognize word is measured

8. Method Lexical Decision Task
Subjects see real words and nonce words on the screen. They press one key if the word is real and another if it is not real
Time to recognize word is measured
The word that is similar or not is presented first-The prime
The word that appears after, whose RT is measured, is the target

9. Materials Prime Target Relationship
nor.ma nor.te orthographic, syllabic
no.ria nor.te orthographic, not syllabic
sa.via nor.te not orthographic, not syllabic
man.do nor.te not orthographic, syllabic

10. Results If orthographic overlap causes slowed RTs to target then
Nor.ma should prime nor.te as much as no.ria primes nor.te
Prime Target Relationship RT in ms
nor.ma nor.te orthographic, syllabic
no.ria nor.te orthographic, not syllabic 887
930 is statistically larger than 887 so priming is different

11. Results If syllabic overlap causes slowed RTs to target then
Man.do should prime nor.te but sa.via should not prime nor.te
Prime Target Relationship RT in ms
sa.via nor.te not orthographic, not syllabic
man.do nor.te not orthographic, syllabic
872 and 871 are not statistically different so there is no difference in priming

12. Results
If syllabic overlap only causes slowed RTs to target when there is orthographic overlap too then
Nor.ma should prime nor.te but no.ria shouldn't prime nor.te
Prime Target Relationship RT in ms
nor.ma nor.te orthographic, syllabic
no.ria nor.te orthographic, not syllabic 887
930 and 887 are statistically different so there is a difference in priming

13. Conclusions
Words with the same syllable structure do not exhibit a priming relationship
Syllable structure alone isn't relevant to processing
Words with the same syllable structure that also overlap orthographically do exhibit a priming relationship
Syllable structure is relevant to processing when coupled with orthographic similarity