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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Spelling accuracy and reaction time (RT) are influenced by various linguistic factors.
  • Understanding the cognitive processes involved in spelling is crucial for educational and therapeutic applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between sublexical and lexical/semantic factors and the spelling performance of American English monosyllables.
  • To analyze spelling accuracy, first keypress reaction time (RT), and response duration.

Main Methods:

  • A megastudy involving typewritten responses for 1,856 monophonic monosyllables.
  • Analysis of 13 predictor variables, including orthographic length, sound-spelling consistency, contextual diversity, and age of acquisition (AoA).

Main Results:

  • All 13 predictor variables significantly related to at least one performance measure.
  • Orthographic length affected accuracy and response duration, but not first key RT.
  • Sound-spelling consistency (onset consistency) impacted accuracy and first key RT.
  • Contextual diversity and AoA consistently influenced all measures.

Conclusions:

  • Spelling processing begins with first letter identification and continues throughout response execution.
  • The findings support a parallel-distributed-processing framework for understanding spelling behavior.