title: Reading Skill and Exposure to Orthography Influence Speech Production.
abstract: Orthographic experience during the acquisition of novel words may influence production processing in proficient readers. Previous work indicates interactivity among lexical, phonological, and articulatory processing; we hypothesized that experience with orthography can also influence phonological processing. Phonetic accuracy and articulatory stability were measured as adult, proficient readers repeated and read aloud nonwords, presented in auditory or written modalities and with variations in orthographic neighborhood density. Accuracy increased when participants had read the nonwords earlier in the session, but not when they had only heard them. Articulatory stability increased with practice, regardless of whether nonwords were read or heard. Word attack skills, but not reading comprehension, predicted articulatory stability. Findings indicate that kinematic and phonetic accuracy analyses provide insight into how orthography influences implicit language processing.
authors.affiliation: Meredith Saletta, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, 250 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, .
authors.forename: Meredith
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saletta
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, 715 Clinic Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, .
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Goffman
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1010 East 59 Street, Chicago, IL 60637, .
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brentari
keywords: articulatory kinematics; implicit learning; orthography; reading