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The role of speech production in phonological decoding during visual word recognition: evidence from phonotactic repair

ABSTRACT The phonological decoding of non-native letter sequences during visual word recognition has been shown to be influenced by phonotactic constraints of the reader's native language [Hallé, P. A., Dominguez, A., Cuetos, F., & Segui, J. (2008). Phonological mediation in visual masked priming: Evidence from phonotactic repair. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 34(1), 177–192]. We investigate the mechanisms underlying such phonotactic repair. We focus on a phonotactic constraint in French, according to which words cannot begin with /tl/. Native speakers of French are known to perceive word-initial /tl/ as /kl/. Using a visual priming paradigm, we show that the same phonotactic repair also occurs when the cluster “tl” is presented visually, but, crucially, only when participants’ speech production system is available; under articulatory suppression the repair fails to occur. Together, these results show that the speech production system is actively involved in phonological decoding during reading.