Beyond decoding: Phonological processing during silent reading in beginning readers.

Blythe, Hazel, Pagán, Ascensión and Dodd, Megan (2015) Beyond decoding: Phonological processing during silent reading in beginning readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41 (4). pp. 1244-1252. ISSN 0278-7393

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Abstract

In this experiment, the extent to which beginning readers process phonology during lexical identification in silent sentence reading was investigated. The eye movements of children aged seven to nine years and adults were recorded as they read sentences containing either a correctly spelled target word (e.g., girl), a pseudohomophone (e.g., gerl), or a spelling control (e.g., garl). Both children and adults showed a benefit from the valid phonology of the pseudohomophone, compared to the spelling control during reading. This indicates that children as young as seven years old exhibit relatively skilled phonological processing during reading, despite having moved past the use of overt phonological decoding strategies. In addition, in comparison to adults, children’s lexical processing was more disrupted by the presence of spelling errors, suggesting a developmental change in the relative dependence upon phonological and orthographic processing in lexical identification during silent sentence reading.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	children, eye movements, reading, phonology
Subjects:	C800 Psychology
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2019 14:49
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2020 15:19
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40924

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