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An earlier experiment (Meyer, Sleiderink, & Levelt, 1998) had shown that speakers naming object pairs usually inspected the objects in the required order of mention (left object first) and that the viewing time for the left object depended on the word frequency of its name. In the present experiment, object pairs were presented simultaneously with auditory distractor words that could be phonologically related or unrelated to the name of the object to be named first. The speech onset latencies and the viewing times for that object were shorter after related distractors than after unrelated distractors. Since this phonological priming effect, like the word frequency effect, most likely arises during wordform retrieval, we conclude that the shift of gaze from the first to the second object is initiated after the word form of the first object’s name has been accessed.
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The authors thank Herbert Baumann, John Nagengast, and Johan Weustink for technical support and Andrew Ellis, David Irwin, Pim Levelt, Janice Murray, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on the manuscript.
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Meyer, A.S., van der Meulen, F.F. Phonological priming effects on speech onset latencies and viewing times in object naming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 7, 314–319 (2000). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212987
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