title: Two distinct parsing stages in nonword reading aloud: Evidence from Russian.
abstract: Word reading partly depends on the activation of sublexical letter clusters. Previous research has studied which types of letter clusters have psychological saliency, but less is known about cognitive mechanisms of letter string parsing. Here, we take advantage of the high degree of context-dependency of the Russian orthography to examine whether consonant-vowel (CV) clusters are treated as units in two stages of sublexical processing. In two experiments using a nonword reading task, we use two orthogonal manipulations: (a) insertion of a visual disruptor (#) to assess whether CV clusters are kept intact during the early visual parsing stage, and (b) presence of context-dependent grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs; e.g., л[а] → /l/; л[я] → /lj/), to assess whether CV clusters remain intact or are split during the print-to-speech conversion stage. The results suggest that although CV clusters are initially processed as perceptual units in the early visual parsing stage, letters and not CV clusters drive print-to-speech conversion.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation , Università degli Studi di Padova , Padua , Italy.|b ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders , Macquarie University , Sydney , NSW , Australia.
authors.forename: Xenia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Schmalz
authors.affiliation: c General and Strategic Management Department , National Research University Higher School of Economics , Nizhny Novgorod , Russia.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Porshnev
authors.affiliation: b ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders , Macquarie University , Sydney , NSW , Australia.|d Department of Cognitive Science , Macquarie University , Sydney , NSW , Australia.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marinus
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D012426:Russia; D013060:Speech; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary
keywords: Letters; Nonwords; Reading; Sublexical processing; Whammies