The strong, the weak, and the first: The impact of phonological stress on processing of orthographic errors in silent reading

Крюкова, О.С.; Mani, Nivedita

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2016.01.003

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“…Regardless of the direction of attenuated negativity, we note that the systematic differences between conditions, especially with regard to iambs in congruent and incongruent contexts allows us to draw strong conclusions regarding the activation of prosodic information during silent reading. Especially taken together with our previous study ( Kriukova and Mani, 2016 ), the current study strongly suggests that phonological information related to the metrical structure of words is co-activated during silent reading. In a task where participants were not required in any way to attend to this prosodic content of words, we found, nevertheless a strong influence of metrical information on lexical processing.…”

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“…To capture the distribution of the metrical and lexico-semantic effects in reading as reported in previous studies ( Böcker et al, 1999 ; Kriukova and Mani, 2016 ), the following 9 representative electrodes were selected for the analysis: F3, Fz, F4, C3, C4, Cz, P3, Pz, and P4 as depicted in Figure 1A . Repeated measures analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were employed for the inferential statistics.…”

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“…A growing body of recent research has demonstrated that visual language processing covertly activates phonological representations at different levels: individual phonemes ( Frost, 1998 ), sub-phonemic properties such as phonetic length ( Abramson and Goldinger, 1997 ) and supra-segmental features such as prosodic phrase boundaries ( Steinhauer and Friederici, 2001 ; Roll et al, 2012 ; Schremm et al, 2015 ). Word stress is likewise activated in silent reading ( Ashby and Clifton, 2005 ), which manifests as interference with the orthographic and lexico-semantic processing of these words ( Harris and Perfetti, 2016 ; Kriukova and Mani, 2016 ). For instance, Kriukova and Mani (2016) observed an increased N400 and P600 in response to orthographic misspellings embedded in stressed syllables compared to misspellings in unstressed syllables when these occurred in the middle of a word.…”

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“…Word stress is likewise activated in silent reading ( Ashby and Clifton, 2005 ), which manifests as interference with the orthographic and lexico-semantic processing of these words ( Harris and Perfetti, 2016 ; Kriukova and Mani, 2016 ). For instance, Kriukova and Mani (2016) observed an increased N400 and P600 in response to orthographic misspellings embedded in stressed syllables compared to misspellings in unstressed syllables when these occurred in the middle of a word. We suggested that even in silent reading misspellings in strong syllables are more salient and disrupt lexical access more than misspellings in weak syllables, which in turn leads to active re-evaluation reflected in the enhanced P600.…”

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Processing Metrical Information in Silent Reading: An ERP Study

Крюкова

Mani

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Listeners are sensitive to the metric structure of words, i.e., an alternating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, in auditory speech processing: Event-related potentials recorded as participants listen to a sequence of words with a consistent metrical pattern, e.g., a series of trochaic words, suggest that participants register words metrically incongruent with the preceding sequence. Here we examine whether the processing of individual words in silent reading is similarly impacted by rhythmic properties of the surrounding context. We recorded participants’ EEG as they read lists of either three trochaic or iambic disyllabic words followed by a target word that was either congruent or incongruent with the preceding metric pattern. Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) to targets were modulated by an interaction between metrical structure (iambic vs. trochaic) and congruence: for iambs, more positive ERPs were observed in the incongruent than congruent condition 250–400 ms and 400–600 ms post-stimulus, whereas no reliable impact of congruence was found for trochees. We suggest that when iambs are in an incongruent context, i.e., preceded by trochees, the context contains the metrical structure that is more typical in participants’ native language which facilitates processing relative to when they are presented in a congruent context, containing the less typical, i.e., iambic, metrical structure. The results provide evidence that comprehenders are sensitive to the prosodic properties of the context even in silent reading, such that this sensitivity impacts lexico-semantic processing of individual words.

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Processing Metrical Information in Silent Reading: An ERP Study

Крюкова

Mani

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…When reading silently, a reader’s inner voice can also distinguish inertly between various qualities, mirroring external intonation and modulation, varying i.a., by volume/stress, pitch and tempo ( 142 ). Hence, subvocalization can affect silent reading ( 79 ; 131 ), which is reflected in the implicit prosody hypothesis. It states that phonological features influence syntactic parsing and guide ambiguity resolution ( 8 ; 42 , 43 , 44 ).…”

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Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

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Konieczny

2021

JEMR

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The present study investigates effects of conventionally metered and rhymed poetry on eye-movements in silent reading. Readers saw MRRL poems (i.e., metrically regular, rhymed language) in two layouts. In poem layout, verse endings coincided with line breaks. In prose layout verse endings could be mid-line. We also added metrical and rhyme anomalies. We hypothesized that silently reading MRRL results in building up auditive expectations that are based on a rhythmic “audible gestalt” and propose that rhythmicity is generated through subvocalization. Our results revealed that readers were sensitive to rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies but showed differential effects in poem and prose layouts. Metrical anomalies in particular resulted in robust reading disruptions across a variety of eye-movement measures in the poem layout and caused re-reading of the local context. Rhyme anomalies elicited stronger effects in prose layout and resulted in systematic re-reading of pre-rhymes. The presence or absence of rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies, as well as the layout manipulation, also affected reading in general. Effects of syllable number indicated a high degree of subvocalization. The overall pattern of results suggests that eye-movements reflect, and are closely aligned with, the rhythmic subvocalization of MRRL. This study introduces a two-stage approach to the analysis of long MRRL stimuli and contributes to the discussion of how the processing of rhythm in music and speech may overlap.

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Altvater‐Mackensen¹

2020

The Handbook of Listening

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The strong, the weak, and the first: The impact of phonological stress on processing of orthographic errors in silent reading

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Processing Metrical Information in Silent Reading: An ERP Study

Processing Metrical Information in Silent Reading: An ERP Study

Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

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