We discuss our results toward the overlooked role of phonological universals and the over-trusted role of statistical information during reading processes. Our results show that syllable location and segmentation in reading is early and automatically modulated by phonological sonority-related markedness in the absence or quasi-absence of statistical information and does not require acoustic-phonetic information. To address this question, we ran two tasks with 128 French adult skilled readers using two versions of the illusory conjunction paradigm (Task 1 without white noise Task 2 with white noise). Here, we investigate whether French adult skilled readers rely on universal phonological sonority-related markedness continuum across the syllable boundaries for segmentation (e.g., from marked, illegal intervocalic clusters / zl/ to unmarked, legal intervocalic clusters / lz/). Indeed, syllable-based effects could depend on more abstract, universal phonological constraints that rule and govern how letter and sound occur and co-occur, and readers could be sensitive to sonority-a universal phonological element-for processing (pseudo)words. Although these language-specific statistical properties are crucial, recent data suggest that studies that go all-in on phonological and orthographic regularities may be misguided in interpreting how-and why-readers locate syllable boundaries and segment clusters.
Many studies focused on the letter and sound co-occurrences to account for the well-documented syllable-based effects in French in visual (pseudo)word processing. 2Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives (UNESCOG), Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.1CNRS, LAPSCO, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.Méghane Tossonian 1,2*, Ludovic Ferrand 1, Ophélie Lucas 1, Mickaël Berthon 1 and Norbert Maïonchi-Pino 1*
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