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Sound–spelling consistency in adults' orthographic learning
Author(s) -
Burt Jennifer S.,
Blackwell Penelope
Publication year - 2008
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/j.1467-9817.2007.00362.x
Subject(s) - spelling , hard rime , psychology , orthography , orthographic projection , linguistics , phonology , audiology , speech recognition , cognitive psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , reading (process) , computer science , art , medicine , philosophy , literature
Forty‐eight adults were trained on monosyllabic pseudowords and their meanings and then tested in vocal spelling. The orthographic inconsistency of the rime (e.g. orn , awn for ‘ glorn ’) and the number of learning trials affected accuracy and response latency in the vocal spelling test. In addition, orthographic typicality as assessed by neighbour statistics predicted item spelling accuracy. Spelling accuracy on orthographically consistent items significantly increased with training, suggesting that unfamiliar monosyllables are not necessarily spelled by reliance on sound–spelling correspondences at the rime level. Analysis of spelling errors revealed that good spellers made more spelling errors containing alternative rime spellings and fewer errors that were phonologically inappropriate than poor spellers.