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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Orthographic experience may impact novel word production in skilled readers.
  • Interactivity is known among lexical, phonological, and articulatory processing.
  • The influence of orthography on phonological processing is hypothesized.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how orthographic experience affects phonological processing in proficient readers.
  • To examine the impact of auditory versus written presentation on nonword repetition.
  • To determine the relationship between reading skills and articulatory stability.

Main Methods:

  • Adult proficient readers repeated and read aloud nonwords.
  • Nonwords were presented in auditory or written modalities.
  • Phonetic accuracy and articulatory stability were measured, with variations in orthographic neighborhood density.

Main Results:

  • Accuracy improved after reading nonwords, but not after only hearing them.
  • Articulatory stability increased with practice, irrespective of auditory or written exposure.
  • Word attack skills predicted articulatory stability, unlike reading comprehension.

Conclusions:

  • Orthographic experience significantly influences phonetic accuracy in word production.
  • Implicit language processing is illuminated by kinematic and phonetic accuracy analyses.
  • Reading practice, beyond mere exposure, enhances articulatory stability.