• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2004.10d
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• pp.225-228
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• 2004

English has words that have a silent letter in their letter strings (e.g., knowledge). Such words provide an opportunity of investigating the role of phonological information in multi-syllabic words by comparing them to words that do not have the silent letter in the corresponding position (e.g., available). Stimuli that excluded a silent letter (e.g., _nowledge) were processed faster than those that excluded a sounding letter (e.g., _vailable) in the lexical decision task. The evidence from this experiment provides seminal evidence of phonological recoding in multi-syllabic word recognition