David W. Gow 1a1 a1 Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114
gow@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Abstract
The Merge model suggests that lexical effects in phonemic processing reflect the activation of post-lexical phonemic representations that are distinct from prelexical phonemic input representations. This distinction seems to be unmotivated; the phoneme fails to capture the richness of prelexical representation. Increasing the information content of input representations minimizes the potential necessity for top-down processes.
Footnotes
1 The author is also affiliated with the Department of Psychology, Salem State College
