Abstract:
The influence of intra-word constituents on word naming latency in English as second language
in an Indian context is not well known. The study investigated the effects of orthographic, phonological, and
unrelated word primes on monosyllabic (C1V1C2) word naming in comparison with a control condition, at 50
and 100 ms prime durations in a masked-priming paradigm. The orthographic primes were facilitative in
accordance with the segmental overlap hypothesis only at 100 ms, while the phonological and unrelated
primes exhibited interference effects contradicting the findings of studies with English as the first language.