The assembly of phonology from print is serial and subject to strategic control: evidence from serbian.
The Serbian writing system was used to investigate whether a serial procedure is implicated in print-to-sound translation and whether components of the reading aloud system can be strategically controlled. In mixed- and pure-alphabet lists, participants read aloud phonologically bivalent words comprising bivalent letters in initial or final positions. Words with bivalent letters in initial positions were disadvantaged relative to nonbivalent controls to a greater degree than were words with bivalent letters in final positions, and the size of the effect was greater in the mixed-alphabet situations than it was in the pure-alphabet situations. A dual-route theory of bialphabetic reading aloud is proposed in which the nonlexical procedure operates serially and nonlexical spelling-sound correspondences for each script can be strategically emphasized or deemphasized.
Havelka
Jelena
J
Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. J.Havelka@kent.ac.uk
Rastle
Kathleen
K
D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D011327:Printing; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary