title: Reading speech and hearing print: constraining models of visual word recognition by exploring connections with speech perception.
abstract: Current models of reading and speech perception differ widely in their assumptions regarding the interaction of orthographic and phonological information during language perception. The present experiments examined this interaction through a two-alternative, forced-choice paradigm, and explored the nature of the connections between graphemic and phonemic processing subsystems. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated a facilitation-dominant influence (i.e., benefits exceed costs) of graphemic contexts on phoneme discrimination, which is interpreted as a sensitivity effect. Experiments 3 and 4 demonstrated a symmetrical influence (i.e., benefits equal costs) of phonemic contexts on grapheme discrimination, which can be interpreted as either a bias effect, or an equally facilitative/inhibitory sensitivity effect. General implications for the functional architecture of language processing models are discussed, as well as specific implications for models of visual word recognition and speech perception.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. ron.borowsky@usask.ca
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Borowsky
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fonos
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary