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- Title
Spelling patterns and the development of flexible word recognition strategies.
- Authors
Santa, Carol Minnick
- Abstract
TWO INVESTIGATIONS compared the word recognition units used by adults and children reading on first, second, and fifth grade levels. Reactions to Same and to Different tasks were timed. In the first experiment, children saw tachistoscopic presentations of word parts, called ‘probes.’ For the Same trials, the probe was an integral subset of the words (for example, for the word BLAST: BL). For the Different, the probe differed by 1 letter (for example. for the word BLAST: LE). The probes included some with single letters, some with 2 letters, and some with the whole word. In the second experiment, children and adults decided if pairs of pictures and words were semantically equivalent. For the Same trial, the picture illustrated the word; for the Different trial, it did not. The words were typed with normal spacing and with 2 blank spaces after the first, second, third, and fourth letters. These 2 experiments provided evidence about a variety of word processing units: single letters, whole words, and spelling patterns.
- Subjects
ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; PHONOLOGY; PHONEMICS; SPELLING patterns; READING; LANGUAGE arts; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Reading Research Quarterly, 1976, Vol 12, Issue 2, p124
- ISSN
0034-0553
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/747238