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Use of context in the word recognition process by adults with a significant history of reading difficulties

Use of context in the word recognition process by adults with a significant history of reading... We examined whether university students who report a significant history of reading difficulties (RD; n = 24) differed from university students with no history of reading difficulties (NRD; n = 31) in how sentence context affects word recognition. Experiment 1 found no differences in how congruent sentence primes or syntactic manipulations of the sentence primes affected the performance of the two groups. However, only the RD group displayed a significant inhibition effect when the target word was preceded by an incongruent sentence prime. Experiment 2 found that the groups differed in how meaning frequency of the target word and context strength of the sentence prime affected word recognition latencies. The results suggest that the RD participants’ performance is context-sensitive and better explained by interactive models of language processing than by modular models. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Dyslexia Springer Journals

Use of context in the word recognition process by adults with a significant history of reading difficulties

Corkett, Julie; Parrila, Rauno
Annals of Dyslexia , Volume 58 (2) – Sep 30, 2008
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2008 by The International Dyslexia Association
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Linguistics; Language and Literature; Psycholinguistics; Education, general; Neurology
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0736-9387
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1934-7243
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10.1007/s11881-008-0018-1
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18825501
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Abstract

We examined whether university students who report a significant history of reading difficulties (RD; n = 24) differed from university students with no history of reading difficulties (NRD; n = 31) in how sentence context affects word recognition. Experiment 1 found no differences in how congruent sentence primes or syntactic manipulations of the sentence primes affected the performance of the two groups. However, only the RD group displayed a significant inhibition effect when the target word was preceded by an incongruent sentence prime. Experiment 2 found that the groups differed in how meaning frequency of the target word and context strength of the sentence prime affected word recognition latencies. The results suggest that the RD participants’ performance is context-sensitive and better explained by interactive models of language processing than by modular models.

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Annals of Dyslexia – Springer Journals

Published: Sep 30, 2008

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