What Are the Functional Units in Reading? Evidence for Statistical Variation Influencing Word Processing

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“…Granularity and consistency are important aspects of this structure, and both impact reading performance. Adult readers are slower to identify letters within a multi-letter grapheme (Smith and Monaghan, 2011;Rey et al, 2000), suggesting that graphemes are functional reading units. Furthermore, Rastle and Coltheart (1998) found that naming latencies were slower for pseudo-words with, as compared to without, multi-letter graphemes.…”