Moving beyond the monosyllable in models of skilled reading: Mega-study of disyllabic nonword reading

Mousikou, Petroula; Sadat, Jasmin; Lucas, Rebecca; Rastle, Kathleen

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2016.09.003

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“…Because the number of character-level factors increases as word length increases, we averaged the character-level factors at different character positions and entered the averaged values in our regression models. A similar averaging procedure has been adopted in a megastudy that investigated how spelling-to-sound consistency of onsets and rimes affected nonword naming in English, such that the consistencies of onsets and rimes were averaged (Mousikou, Sadat, Lucas, & Rastle, 2017). The character-level factors included the number of words formed, cumulative character frequency, number of meanings, number of strokes, and number of pronunciations.…”

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MELD-SCH: A megastudy of lexical decision in simplified Chinese

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Here we report on MELD-SCH (MEgastudy of Lexical Decision in Simplified CHinese), a dataset that contains the lexical decision data of 1,020 one-character, 10,022 two-character, 949 three-character, and 587 four-character simplified Chinese words obtained from 504 native Chinese users. It also includes a number of word-level and character-level variables. Analyses showed that the reliability of the dataset is satisfactory, as indicated by split-half correlations and comparisons with other datasets. Item-based regression showed that both word-level and character-level variables contributed significantly to the reaction times and error rates of lexical decision. Moreover, we discovered a U-shape relationship between word-length and reaction times, which has not been reported in Chinese before. MELD-SCH can facilitate research in Chinese word recognition by providing high quality normative data and information of different linguistic variables. It also encourages researchers to extend their empirical findings, which are mostly based on one-character and two-character words, to words of different lengths.

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MELD-SCH: A megastudy of lexical decision in simplified Chinese

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“…It could be that participants individually have very precise knowledge, perhaps expressed in the form of rules (e.g., Coltheart et al, 2001), but that this knowledge differs across participants as a result of differences in reading experience. Mousikou et al (2017) considered and rejected this possibility, on the basis that there is also a high degree of inconsistency within participants in the pronunciations and stress given to highly inconsistent orthographic units (see also Ktori, Mousikou, & Rastle, 2018). Overall, the findings of Mousikou et al (2017) suggest that even in a sample of highly skilled adult readers with considerable experience of English writing, there is a high degree of uncertainty in areas of the spelling-sound mapping.…”

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EPS mid-career prize lecture 2017: Writing systems, reading, and language

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2019

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Skilled reading reflects an accumulation of experience with written language. Written language is typically viewed as an expression of spoken language, and this perspective has motivated approaches to understanding reading and reading acquisition. However, in this article, I develop the proposal that written language has diverged from spoken language in important ways that maximise the transmission of meaningful information, and that this divergence has been central to the development of rapid, skilled reading. I use English as an example to show that weaknesses in the relationship between spelling and sound can give rise to strong regularities between spelling and meaning that are critical for the rapid analysis of printed words. I conclude by arguing that the nature of the reading system is a reflection of the writing system and that a deep understanding of reading can be obtained only through a deep understanding of written language.

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“…Despite its limitations, this approach enables us to tease apart the effects of different variables and use them to evaluate models (e.g. see comparative evaluation of models in simulating stress assignment in Mousikou, Sadat, Lucas, & Rastle, 2017).…”

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Lexical and sublexical effects on visual word recognition in Greek: comparing human behavior to the dual route cascaded model

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Protopapas

Saunders

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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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We evaluated the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) model of visual word recognition using Greek behavioral data on word and nonword naming and lexical decision, focusing on the effects of syllable and bigram frequency. DRC was modified to process polysyllabic Greek words and nonwords. The Greek DRC and native speakers of Greek were presented with the same sets of word and nonword stimuli, spanning a wide range on several psycholinguistic variables, and the sensitivity of the model to lexical and sublexical variables was compared to the effects of these factors on the behavioral data. DRC pronounced correctly all the stimuli and successfully simulated the effects of frequency in words, and of length and bigram frequency in nonwords. However, unlike native speakers of Greek, DRC failed to demonstrate sensitivity to word length and syllabic frequency. We discuss the significance of these findings in constraining models of visual word recognition.

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Moving beyond the monosyllable in models of skilled reading: Mega-study of disyllabic nonword reading

Cited by 51 publications

References 51 publications

MELD-SCH: A megastudy of lexical decision in simplified Chinese

MELD-SCH: A megastudy of lexical decision in simplified Chinese

EPS mid-career prize lecture 2017: Writing systems, reading, and language

Lexical and sublexical effects on visual word recognition in Greek: comparing human behavior to the dual route cascaded model

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