Deja-lu: When Orthographic Representations are Generated in the Absence of Orthography.

ABSTRACT: When acquiring novel spoken words, English-speaking children generate preliminary orthographic representations even before seeing the words' spellings (Wegener et al., 2018). Interestingly, these orthographic skeletons are generated even when novel words' spellings are uncertain, at least in transparent languages like Spanish (Jevtović et al., 2022). Here we investigate whether this process depends on the orthographic rules of the language, and specifically, whether orthographic skeletons for words with uncertain spellings are generated even when the probability of generating an incorrect representation is high. Forty-six French adults first acquired novel words via aural instruction and were then presented with words' spellings in a self-paced reading task. Importantly, novel words

SUBMITTER: Jevtovic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9838226 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature