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Peer reviewedMcCutchen, Deborah; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Examines the tongue-twister effect to help determine the role of phonological information during silent reading. Concludes that the tongue-twister effect results from phonetic rather than visual confusion, and that the locus of the effect is within working memory. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Phonology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Download full textMcCutchen, Deborah; Perfetti, Charles A. – 1983
The assumption that phonological processes support comprehension guided two experiments in manipulating the similarity of the consonant code both within silently read sentences and between these sentences and concurrently vocalized phrases. The first experiment examined whether tongue-twisters would take longer to read than phonetically…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing
