“…These findings are in line with the orthographic depth hypothesis (Katz & Frost, 1992) as they indicate that in conditions of high transparency, and, therefore, highly reliable GPC rules, readers may utilize sublexical representations to a high degree. In contrast, in less transparent languages, like English, syllables might not be utilized as much (Ziegler et al, 1997; related arguments regarding processing unit size have been made also on the basis of length effects, e.g., for Italian, Marinelli, et al, 2016, andeye movement patterns, e.g., for German, Rau et al, 2016, among others). Furthermore, our results show that phonologically defined syllables may hold a unique status among sublexical representations.…”