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Reading Complex Words

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Linguistic Structure in Language Processing

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 7))

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In recent years, psychologists have developed sophisticated accounts of visual word recognition (see Henderson, 1982, and papers in Besner, Waller, and MacKinnon, 1985, for reviews), which are being applied to questions concerning the acquisition of reading skill (e.g., Backman, Bruck, Hébert, and Seidenberg, 1984), the breakdown of reading following brain injury (e.g., Patterson, Marshall, and Coltheart, 1985), and the manner in which orthography influences the reading process (e.g., Seidenberg, 1985a; Katz and Feldman, 1983). Although there has been considerable progress in these areas, the scope of current theories is limited because they are largely based on studies of relatively simple, monosyllabic and monomorphemic words. As such, they beg important questions concerning the role of sublexical structures such as syllables and morphemes.

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Seidenberg, M.S. (1989). Reading Complex Words. In: Carlson, G.N., Tanenhaus, M.K. (eds) Linguistic Structure in Language Processing. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2729-2_3

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