Does phonology contribute to effects of orthographically related flankers in the flankers task? In order to answer this question, we implemented the flanker equivalent of a pseudohomophone priming manipulation that has been widely used to demonstrate automatic phonological processing during visual word recognition. In Experiment 1, central target words were flanked on each side by either a pseudohomophone of the target (e.g., roze rose roze), an orthographic control pseudoword (rone rose rone), or an unrelated pseudoword (mirt rose mirt). Both the pseudohomophone and the orthographic control conditions produced faster and more accurate responses to central targets, but performance in these two conditions did not differ significantly. Experiment 2 tested the same stimuli in a masked priming paradigm and replicated the standard finding in French that pseudohomophone primes produce significantly faster responses to target words than orthographic control primes. Therefore, contrary to its impact on masked priming, phonology does not contribute to effects of flanker relatedness, which would appear to be driven primarily by orthographic overlap.

音韵学是否有助于侧翼任务中与拼写相关的侧翼的影响？为了回答这个问题，我们实现了伪同音启动操作的侧翼等效项，该操作已广泛用于演示视觉单词识别过程中的自动语音处理。在实验1中，中心目标词的两侧分别是目标的伪同音词（例如，rozeroseroze）、拼写控制伪词（roneroserone）或不相关的伪词（mirtrosemirt）。伪同音字和正交控制条件都对中心目标产生更快、更准确的响应，但这两种条件下的性能没有显着差异。实验 2 在掩蔽启动范式中测试了相同的刺激，并复制了法语中的标准发现，即伪同音素数对目标词的响应速度明显快于拼写控制素数。因此，与它对掩蔽启动的影响相反，音韵学不会对侧翼相关性产生影响，而侧翼相关性似乎主要是由拼写重叠驱动的。