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Balass, Michal; Nelson, Jessica R.; Perfetti, Charles A. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2010
Adults of varying reading comprehension skill learned a set of previously unknown rare English words (e.g., "gloaming") in three different learning conditions in which the type of word knowledge was manipulated. The words were presented in one of three conditions: (1) orthography-to-meaning (no phonology); (2) orthography-to-phonology (no…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonology, Familiarity, Word Processing
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Booth, James R.; Perfetti, Charles A. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2002
Assesses the role of the onset-rime structure in visual word recognition. Finds experiments 1 through 3 showed no evidence for the importance of onset-rime in children (2nd through 6th graders) or adults; experiment 4 with adults found onset-rime structure is important in oral reading. Suggests the onset-rime structure may be an important unit in…
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Processes