The way in which adult readers process the internal orthographic structure of words was examined in two languages that differ in their syllabic structure, English and Spanish. Readers of both languages were presented with polysyllabic words split according to either their pronounced syllable (e.g., cac tus) or their maximized initial unit corresponding to their Basic Orthographic Syllabic Structure (BOSS, e.g., cact us). In agreement with other recent research, it was found that speed of lexical decision to syllabically split words was faster than to BOSS split words for poorer English speakers, while better English speakers were more oriented toward the BOSS. The Spanish data suggested an overall syllable bias regardless of reading ability, though less so for better readers. The contrast between the English and Spanish results is explained in terms of phonological considerations being more important for Spanish readers.
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Chetail, Fabienne, David Balota, Rebecca Treiman & Alain Content
2015. What can megastudies tell us about the orthographic structure of English words?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 68:8 ► pp. 1519 ff.
Deacon, S. Hélène, Xi Chen, Yang Luo & Gloria Ramirez
2013. Beyond language borders: orthographic processing and word reading in Spanish–English bilinguals. Journal of Research in Reading 36:1 ► pp. 58 ff.
Taft, Marcus & Lidija Krebs-Lazendic
2013. The role of orthographic syllable structure in assigning letters to their position in visual word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language 68:2 ► pp. 85 ff.
Taft, Marcus & Carlos J. Álvarez
2014. Coda Optimization in the Segmentation of English Polysyllabic Letter-Strings. Experimental Psychology 61:6 ► pp. 488 ff.
ÁLVAREZ, CARLOS J., GUACIMARA GARCÍA-SAAVEDRA, JUAN L. LUQUE & MARCUS TAFT
2017. Syllabic parsing in children: a developmental study using visual word-spotting in Spanish. Journal of Child Language 44:2 ► pp. 380 ff.
Álvarez, Carlos J., Marcus Taft & Juan A. Hernández-Cabrera
2017. Syllabic Strategy as Opposed to Coda Optimization in the Segmentation of Spanish Letter-Strings Using Word Spotting. Scientific Studies of Reading 21:2 ► pp. 99 ff.
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