Automatic activation of orthographic information during spoken word recognition in Bangla

Research in spoken word recognition shows traces of orthographic interference and similar effects were found in Bangla word recognition in a rhyme detection task where rhyming word pairs with similar orthographic representations were recognised faster than word pairs with dissimilar orthographic representations. The current paper reports findings of a priming task, where the primes and the targets shared phonological segments which were orthographically either similar or dissimilar. The intent was to examine whether the lexical decision time showed a difference in the two conditions and to account for the difference using the Cohort Model of word recognition.