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Marie-Josèphe Tainturier1, Marie-Line Bosse2, Daniel J Roberts1
1School of Psychology, Bangor University Bangor, Gwynedd, UK.
Frontiers in Psychology
|December 19, 2013
Summary
Adults use spelling knowledge from similar words when writing unfamiliar words. This study shows lexical neighbors influence pseudo-word spelling, integrating both word and sound-based information.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Neuroscience of Language
Background:
- Skilled adult spelling relies on complex cognitive processes.
- Previous research used priming paradigms susceptible to strategic influences.
- Understanding the interaction between lexical and sublexical knowledge in spelling is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the influence of lexical neighbors on pseudo-word spelling in adults.
- To provide a detailed account of the interaction between lexical and sublexical knowledge.
- To explore cognitive processes underlying skilled adult spelling.
Main Methods:
- Two experiments involving 71 French-speaking literate adults.
- Participants wrote pseudo-words to dictation without prior lexical decision tasks.
- Pseudo-words were designed to either have or not have phonological word neighbors.
Main Results:
- Low-probability phoneme/grapheme mappings were used more frequently for pseudo-words with close phonological neighbors.
- Lexical influence on spelling increased with the lexical frequency and phonetic overlap of neighbors.
- Evidence suggests integration of lexical and sublexical information during spelling.
Conclusions:
- Lexical neighbors significantly influence the spelling of pseudo-words in adults.
- The findings support a model where lexical and sublexical spelling processes are integrated.
- A theoretical account for this integration process is proposed.
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