title: Phonological coding in reading of deaf children: Pseudohomophone effects in lexical decision.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to find new evidence for phonological coding in written word recognition among deaf Dutch children. A lexical decision task was presented to 48 severely and profoundly deaf children aged from 6 years 8 months to 13 years 5 months, and a control group of Grade 1 hearing children matched on written word recognition. Sixteen pseudohomophones were introduced, closely matched on orthographic similarity with 16 control pseudo-words. Both hearing children and deaf children made significantly more mistakes on pseudohomophones than on control pseudo-words. Although pseudohomophony effects were smaller for deaf than for hearing participants, the findings were taken as evidence that deaf children also used phonological coding during written word recognition.
authors.affiliation: PI Research-Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Transler
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reitsma