Anne Pycha
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anne Pycha is involved.
Articles
2020 Differences in perception and memory for speech fragments in complex versus simple words: Two experiments The Mental Lexicon 15:2, pp. 189–222 | Article
Two experiments investigated how people perceived and remembered fragments of spoken words that either corresponded to correct lexical entries (as in the complex word drink-er) or did not (as in the simple word glitt-er). Experiment 1 was a noise-rating task that probed perception. Participants… read more
2017 False memories for morphologically simple versus complex words in English The Mental Lexicon 12:1, pp. 71–106 | Article
In tasks such as lexical decision, people respond differently to morphologically complex words compared to morphologically simple ones (e.g. in English, lies vs. rise). These divergent responses could conceivably arise from differences in activation levels, or alternatively, from the additional… read more