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| Title: | Shallow Versus Deep Footprints in Pseudo-Word Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion: Dutch and English |
| Author: | Susanne R. Borgwaldt |
| Institution: | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| Author: | Patrick Bolger |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | University of Alberta |
| Author: | Emőke Jakab |
| Institution: | University of Amsterdam |
| Linguistic Field: | Psycholinguistics |
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English |
| Abstract: | Our study is concerned with reading processes. Using a letter-detection paradigm with masked priming, we tested for the existence and time course of vowel digraph effects in Dutch and English. Whereas Dutch readers showed digraph effects with 67-ms primes, English readers showed only letter effects at 67 ms and merely a weak digraph trend at 83 ms. These findings are consistent with the PSYCHOLOGICAL GRAIN SIZE THEORY, a model of reading development that predicts that grapheme-phoneme conversion proceeds faster in shallow than in deep orthographies. This also demonstrates that similar language structures can be processed differently if they are modulated by different inter-faces, in this case, orthography. |
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This article appears in Journal of Germanic Linguistics Vol. 22, Issue 4, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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