TY - JOUR
T1 - “Assembled” Phonology and Reading
T2 - A Case Study in How Theoretical Perspective Shapes Empirical Investigation
AU - Van Orden, Guy C.
AU - Stone, Greg
AU - Garlington, Karen L.
AU - Markson, Lori R.
AU - Pinnt, Greta Sue
AU - Simonfy, Cynthia M.
AU - Brichetto, Tony
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment Preparation of the manuscript was supported by a National Institute of Health FIRST award (CMS 5 R29 NS26247-02) to Guy Van Orden. The lexical decision and categorization experiments originally composed an independent project conducted by Greta Pinnt. the first proofreading experiment was an independent project conducted by Lori Markson, and the second proofreading experiment was part of an independent project conducted by Karen Garlington We thank Jennifer Morrison and Eric Voldeng for preparing stimulus booklets, running subjects, and coding data for the third proofreading experiment.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - This chapter report experiments that used three laboratory reading tasks such as new lexical decision, semantic categorization, and proofreading experiments. All produced large reliable effects of nonword phonology. If performance in laboratory tasks pertains to typical meaningful experience of text, then it should not be peculiar to a single task. Subjects in a lexical decision experiment judge whether individually presented letter strings are words. They respond “word” to letter strings that are words and “nonword” otherwise. The lexical decision task is used to test whether nonword stimuli falsely retrieve lexical memories of words similar in orthography and phonology. The method detects whether correct rejection of a nonword foil like SLEAT included retrieval of lexical memory for SLEET. Subjects in the lexical decision task judged whether individually presented letter strings were words. Ideally, the lexical decision task isolates word recognition because of the isolated presentation of letter strings, and because words merely need to be recognized for correct performance. But not surprisingly, perhaps, the lexical decision task falls short of this ideal. It requires that words should be discriminated from nonwords, not just recognized. Thus, effects thought to originate in recognition and retrieval is confounded with effects of (possibly) task-specific processes of discrimination.
AB - This chapter report experiments that used three laboratory reading tasks such as new lexical decision, semantic categorization, and proofreading experiments. All produced large reliable effects of nonword phonology. If performance in laboratory tasks pertains to typical meaningful experience of text, then it should not be peculiar to a single task. Subjects in a lexical decision experiment judge whether individually presented letter strings are words. They respond “word” to letter strings that are words and “nonword” otherwise. The lexical decision task is used to test whether nonword stimuli falsely retrieve lexical memories of words similar in orthography and phonology. The method detects whether correct rejection of a nonword foil like SLEAT included retrieval of lexical memory for SLEET. Subjects in the lexical decision task judged whether individually presented letter strings were words. Ideally, the lexical decision task isolates word recognition because of the isolated presentation of letter strings, and because words merely need to be recognized for correct performance. But not surprisingly, perhaps, the lexical decision task falls short of this ideal. It requires that words should be discriminated from nonwords, not just recognized. Thus, effects thought to originate in recognition and retrieval is confounded with effects of (possibly) task-specific processes of discrimination.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)62799-5
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)62799-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956783252
SN - 0166-4115
VL - 94
SP - 249
EP - 292
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -