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Predicting children's word‐reading accuracy for common English words: The effect of word transparency and complexity
Author(s) -
Spencer Ken
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1348/000712609x470752
Subject(s) - orthography , phonology , psychology , reading (process) , word (group theory) , word lists by frequency , linguistics , connectionism , neighbourhood (mathematics) , transparency (behavior) , natural language processing , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , cognition , computer science , mathematics , sentence , mathematical analysis , philosophy , computer security , neuroscience
The effects of printed word frequency and transparency measures on single word reading accuracy were examined in 105 six‐year‐old children. The results indicated that it may be necessary to re‐appraise notions of orthography‐to‐phonology correspondences for children of this age. The influence of orthographic neighbourhood size appeared to derive from word frequency and graphemic complexity. The results also indicated that sonograph frequency was more predictive of reading accuracy than the GPC rules and weighted correspondences currently embodied in dual route and connectionist models of skilled reading.