Graphemic complexity and multiple print-to-sound associations in visual word recognition.
It has recently been reported that words containing a multiletter grapheme are processed slower than are words composed of single-letter graphemes (Rastle & Coltheart, 1998; Rey, Jacobs, Schmidt-Weigand, & Ziegler, 1998). In the present study, using a perceptual identification task, we found in Experiment 1 that this graphemic complexity effect can be observed while controlling for multiple print-to-sound associations, indexed by regularity or consistency. In Experiment 2, we obtained cumulative effects of graphemic complexity and regularity. These effects were replicated in Experiment 3 in a naming task. Overall, these results indicate that graphemic complexity and multiple print-to-sound associations effects are independent and should be accounted for in different ways by models of written word processing.
Rey
Arnaud
A
LEAD-CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. arnaud.rey@u-bourgogne.fr
Schiller
Niels O
NO
D001244:Association; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013016:Sound; D014796:Visual Perception; D014825:Vocabulary