Vowel Processing During Silent Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements

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Title: Vowel Processing During Silent Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
Language: English
Authors: Ashby, Jane, Treiman, Rebecca, Kessler, Brett
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Mar 2006 32(2):416-424.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 9
Publication Date: 2006
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Vowels, Silent Reading, Sentence Structure, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Language Processing, Phonemes
ISSN: 0278-7393
Abstract: Two eye movement experiments examined whether skilled readers include vowels in the early phonological representations used in word recognition during silent reading. Target words were presented in sentences preceded by parafoveal previews in which the vowel phoneme was concordant or discordant with the vowel phoneme in the target word. In Experiment 1, the orthographic vowel differed from the target in both the concordant and discordant preview conditions. In Experiment 2, the vowel letters in the preview were identical to those in the target word. The phonological vowel was ambiguous, however, and the final consonants of the previews biased the vowel phoneme either toward or away from the target's vowel phoneme. In both experiments, shorter reading times were observed for targets preceded by concordant previews than by discordant previews. Implications for models of word recognition are discussed.
Abstractor: Author
Entry Date: 2006
Access URL: https://content.apa.org/journals/xlm/32/2
Accession Number: EJ735186
Database: ERIC
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