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McCutchen, 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

McCutchen, Deborah; Crain-Thoreson, Catherine – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Two experiments studied the role of phonemic information in children's comprehension during silent reading. A sentence acceptability task indicated that readers required more time to read and comprehend sentences with word-initial phonemes (the "tongue-twister effect") than control sentences. When the first task was added to a digit…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Preadolescents, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
McCutchen, 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
McCutchen, Deborah; Dibble, Emily – 1990
A study investigated the role of phonemic (sound-based) information during silent reading to determine whether the visual tongue-twister effect occurs only when readers make judgments of sentence acceptability or whether the visual tongue-twister effect is due to the way sentences are represented in memory. Data were collected from 45 university…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cues, Distinctive Features (Language), Higher Education
Crain-Thoreson, Catherine; McCutchen, Deborah – 1989
A study investigated the role of phonemic information in young readers' silent reading comprehension. Subjects, 56 children in grades 2 and 4, from Seattle parochial schools, were blocked into groups based on their grade and skill level (skilled and less skilled). Each subject saw 48 sentences presented in a random order on an Apple II…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2