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McKague, Meredith; Davis, Chris; Pratt, Chris; Johnston, Michael B. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2008
Skilled readers were trained to recognise either the oral (n=44) or visual form (n=40) of a set of 32 novel words (oral and visual instantiation, respectively). Training involved learning the "meanings" for the instantiated words and was followed by a visual lexical decision task in which the instantiated words were mixed with real English words…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Feedback (Response), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Kim, Jeesun; Davis, Chris; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2008
To segment continuous speech into its component words, listeners make use of language rhythm; because rhythm differs across languages, so do the segmentation procedures which listeners use. For each of stress-, syllable-and mora-based rhythmic structure, perceptual experiments have led to the discovery of corresponding segmentation procedures. In…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Rhythm, Syllables, Oral Language