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Orthographic expectancies in the absence of contextual support
Wegener, Signy Wang, Hua-Chen Beyersmann, Elisabeth Nation, Kate Colenbrander, Danielle Castles, Anne
Wegener, Signy
Wang, Hua-Chen
Beyersmann, Elisabeth
Nation, Kate
Colenbrander, Danielle
Castles, Anne
Abstract
Purpose
Readers can draw on their knowledge of sound-to-letter mappings to form expectations about the spellings of known spoken words prior to seeing them in written sentences. The current study asked whether such orthographic expectancies are observed in the absence of contextual support at the point of reading.
Method
Seventy-eight adults received oral vocabulary training on 16 novel words over two days, while another set of 16 items was untrained. Following training, participants saw both trained and untrained novel words in print for the first time within a lexical recognition task. Half of the items had spellings that were predictable from their pronunciations (e.g., nesh), while the remainder had spellings that were less predictable from their pronunciations (e.g., koyb).
Results
Participants were able to recognize newly learned words, and lexical recognition latencies displayed clear evidence of orthographic expectancies, as evidenced by a larger effect of spelling predictability for orally trained than untrained items.
Conclusion
These data are consistent with the emergence of orthographic expectancies even when written words are first encountered in isolation.
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Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Scientific Studies of Reading
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Volume
27
Issue
2
Page Range
187-197
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ACU Department
Faculty of Education and Arts
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