Word recognition in Serbo-Croatian is phonologically analytic.

Number 410
Year 1983
Drawer 7
Entry Date 11/19/1999
Authors Feldman, L. B., & Turvey, M. T.
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Publication Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 288-298.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0410.pdf
Abstract Conducted a lexical-decision task with 28 undergraduate bialphabetic readers of Serbo-Croatian. It was shown that letter strings that can be assigned both a Roman and a Cyrillic alphabet reading incurred longer latencies than did the unique alphabet transcription of the same word. This within-word phonological-ambiguity effect was obtained for both words and pseudowords, but the effect was more exaggerated with words. The magnitude of the difference depended on the number and distribution of ambiguous characters in the ambiguous letter string. It is concluded that lexical decision in Serbo-Croatian necessarily involves a phonologically analytic strategy.
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