PHOM: A database of 14,000 pseudo-homophones

PHOM : une base de données de 14 000 pseudohomophones.

Fernand Farioli (1) , Jonathan Grainger (1) , Ludovic Ferrand (2)

1 LPC - Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive
2 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et de psychologie cognitive

Pseudo-homophones (i.e., novel letter strings that can be pronounced like real words, i.e., ``brane'' from ``brain'') play an important role in psycholinguistic experiments, since they can be used to uncover basic mechanisms associated with the role of phonology in silent reading and reading aloud. We present a database of more than 14,000 French pseudo-homophones that respect the phonotactic constraints of French. We also describe our pseudo-homophone generator that can be used to generate pseudo-homophones that obey French phonotactic constraints. The database is freely available on the following website http://sites.google.com/site/ludovicferrand/Home/data.

Domaines: Psychologie

Fernand Farioli, Jonathan Grainger, Ludovic Ferrand. PHOM: A database of 14,000 pseudo-homophones. L'Année psychologique, 2011, 111 (4), pp.725-751. ⟨10.4074/S0003503311004052⟩. ⟨hal-01440411⟩