Factors Influencing the Accurate Identification of Written Minimal Pairs with Graphemic Similarity: Evidence from Persian-Speaking Children and Adults.
J Psycholinguist Res
; 51(6): 1267-1281, 2022 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-35644895
ABSTRACT
In this study, we compared children's and adults' ability to accurately identify target words in written minimal pairs (WMPs) with graphemically similar letters while accounting for factors such as gender, similarity of the middle letter in WMPs, mono- versus dimorphemic WMPs, number of syllable, homography, and imageability. Fifty children and fifty adults were exposed to a distractor stimulus as a pre-mask, followed by the target, and then a post-mask stimulus. Subsequently, the corresponding WMPs including the target word and its graphemically minimal contrast were presented to the participants to obtain their reaction time (RT) in accurately identifying the target word. Results demonstrated that children tend to slow down their reaction as a compensatory strategy to circumvent their less mature knowledge of graphophonic units/morphemes to achieve accuracy during word recognition. In addition, among all controlled factors, children's RT was significantly influenced by similarity of the middle letter in the WMPs. Adults' RT, however, was influenced by factors such as gender, similarity of the middle letter in WMPs, and homography.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Reading
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Writing
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Child
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Psycholinguist Res
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Iran