Beyond Decoding: Phonological Processing During Silent Reading in Beginning Readers

In this experiment, the extent to which beginning readers process phonology during lexical identification in silent sentence reading was investigated. The eye movements of children aged seven to nine years and adults were recorded as they read sentences containing either a correctly spelled target w...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 2015-07, Vol.41 (4), p.1244-1252
Main Authors: Blythe, Hazel I., Pagán, Ascensión, Dodd, Megan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Beginning Reading
Child
Children
Children & youth
England (Southampton)
Error Patterns
Experimental psychology
Eye Movement Measurements
Eye Movements
Female
Foreign Countries
Human
Humans
Identification
Language Development
Language Tests
Linear Models
Male
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Phonetics
Phonology
Photic Stimulation
Psychological Tests
Reading
Reading Ability
Reading Development
Reading Processes
Sentences
Silent Reading
Spelling
Statistical Analysis
Young Adult
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Summary:In this experiment, the extent to which beginning readers process phonology during lexical identification in silent sentence reading was investigated. The eye movements of children aged seven to nine years and adults were recorded as they read sentences containing either a correctly spelled target word (e.g., girl), a pseudohomophone (e.g., gerl), or a spelling control (e.g., garl). Both children and adults showed a benefit from the valid phonology of the pseudohomophone, compared to the spelling control during reading. This indicates that children as young as seven years old exhibit relatively skilled phonological processing during reading, despite having moved past the use of overt phonological decoding strategies. In addition, in comparison to adults, children's lexical processing was more disrupted by the presence of spelling errors, suggesting a developmental change in the relative dependence upon phonological and orthographic processing in lexical identification during silent sentence reading.
ISSN:0278-7393
1939-1285
DOI:10.1037/xlm0000080