9 | Visual word recognition Flashcards
What factors affect visual word recognition?
Lexical frequency
Context effects
The more constraining the context, the faster and more reliable the recognition of a word
What is the word length effect?
The size of the word, measured in terms of its length in letters, affects participants’ memories for words they have seen, as well as recognition times for individual words
Increasing word length between 3-5 letters, increased the recognition speed
Increasing word length between 5-8 letters, had not drastic effect on the recognition speed
Increasing the word length between 8-13 letters, slowed the recognition speed drastically
What is the regularity effect?
Concerns the relationship between spelling and pronunciation
Visually presented words with a regular spelling-sound correspondence are easier to process than those with an irregular correspondence
usually sounds like <i>, therefore is a regular word and is not
</i>
What is morton’s logogen model?
Words are represented by logogens
Recognition units that are activated on the basis of different types of input information
Visualize them as container where input features flow until an activation threshold is reached
What is forster’s search model?
Serial search Done one word at the time High-frequency words are checked first Information flows into different categories: Visual Phonetic Syntactic/semantic Combined and used the information to find the word
What is the grapheme-phoneme route
Under discussion:
Whether there is a pathway that takes readers through a rule-based system that converts written strings into forms for pronunciation
Whether this conversion happens prior to lexical access
The extent to which the use of such conversion is under strategic control
The read word (the written word) goes to grapheme identification, phoneme identification and then finds the stored word
, c a t, /k æ t/, /k æ t/-’cat’
What is the dual-route model?
A whole-word route for practised forms, and a grapheme-phoneme route for novel forms
What is visual access to words?
Whole-word recognition relies on visual evidence concerning the whole-form as a complete unit, such as its overall word shape
