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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience of Reading

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  • Phonological activation during reading is well-established at the segmental (phonemic) level.
  • Limited research exists on subsegmental and suprasegmental phonological activation during reading.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether suprasegmental phonology, specifically lexical stress, influences orthographic processing during silent reading.
  • To examine the role of reader's goals (comprehension vs. error detection) and linguistic predictability in lexical stress effects.

Main Methods:

  • Three proofreading experiments were conducted.
  • Participants read texts with varying levels of linguistic predictability and were instructed to either read for comprehension, for errors, or both.
  • The influence of lexical stress on spelling error detection was analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Spelling errors were detected more reliably in stressed syllables than unstressed syllables when comprehension was a goal.
  • Lexical stress effects interacted with predictability: stress aided error detection in predictable words but not in less predictable ones.
  • Error detection was more reliable in less predictable words across all experiments.

Conclusions:

  • Suprasegmental phonology, specifically lexical stress, is active during silent reading and influences orthographic processing.
  • Linguistic predictability modulates the influence of lexical stress, suggesting prelexical access to stress patterns.
  • Skilled readers with larger vocabularies showed reduced effects of phonological information on orthographic decisions.