Morpheme Position Coding in Reading Development as Explored With a Letter Search Task.

ABSTRACT: Suffixes have been shown to be recognized as units of processing in visual word recognition and their identification has been argued to be position-specific in skilled adult readers: in lexical decision tasks suffixes are automatically identified at word endings, but not at word beginnings. The present study set out to investigate whether position-specific coding can be detected with a letter search task and whether children already code suffixes as position-specific units. A preregistered experiment was conducted in Italian in which 3rd-graders, 5th-graders, and adults had to detect a target letter that was either contained in the suffix of a pseudoword (e.g., S in flagish ) or in a non-suffix control (e.g., S in flagosh ). To investigate sensitiv

SUBMITTER: Hasenacker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7894372 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature