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Le jeune lecteur sourd de naissance : un cas de soutien à l’accès direct au lexique?
Author(s) -
Beech John R.,
Harris Margaret
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9817.00024
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , phonology , linguistics , lexical access , task (project management) , hearing loss , phonological awareness , lexical decision task , audiology , cognitive psychology , cognition , philosophy , medicine , management , neuroscience , economics
A comparison was made between prelingually deaf and hearing children matched on reading age (between 7:0 and 7:11 years) in order to examine possible differences in reading performance. The deaf children all had a severe or profound hearing loss and were receiving special education in either a school or a unit for the deaf. The experimental tasks used a lexical decision task involving the reading of single words. The employment of phonology in reading was investigated by comparing reading performance on regular and irregular words and by comparing reading of homophonic versus non–homophonic nonwords. Both tasks revealed that hearing participants were much more affected by regularity and homophony, suggesting a much greater reliance on assembled phonological recoding. These results are discussed in terms of deaf readers relying on lexical access for reading print.