Incipient Constituents: Phonesthemes Facilitate Word Processing in English.

Open Mind (Camb) · 2026 · PMC13327789 · PMID 42396549

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only marginally significantp = .059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Phonesthemes also predicted more accurate visual word recognition, though for ELP, the empirical p -value is only marginally significant: Responses to words containing phonesthemes were more accurate in 942 cases for the ELP ( p = .059) and 985 cases for the BLP ( p = .016).

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