The Roles of Orthographic, Phonological and Word Frequency Variables on Word-Nonword Decisions.

Mason, Jana M.

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Publication Date: 1976

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The Roles of Orthographic, Phonological and Word Frequency Variables on Word-Nonword Decisions

Mason, Jana M.

American Educational Research Journal, 13, 3, 199-206, Sum 76

The results indicate that skilled readers can recognize four-letter words without extensive orthographic analysis. Unskilled readers may use the same process but revert to a phonological encoding when a word is both unfamiliar and contains an irregular vowel. (Author/RC)

Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Spelling, Structural Analysis, Word Frequency, Word Recognition

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