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This paper addresses the question of how skilled readers may use subwordform-based strategies to (a) identify lexical entries corresponding to single printed words, and (b) perceive printed words while at the same time integrating grammatical information in a sentence. Results from research in Italian, Dutch, and Swedish are first reviewed which support readers’ use of morphologically-defined letter strings called ‘handles’, to identify words’ lexical bases, or stems. Work in the same three languages is then presented which suggests involuntary processing of lexical bases and affixes during the reading of ill-formed language sequences. Finally, it is shown that, in more normal reading, rather than words’ lexical bases, it is the grammatical features of words which can be anticipated from context, also in near-real time. Initially independent processing of a wordform’s handle and grammatical ending may characterize skilled reading in the languages considered.
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Jarvella, R.J. (1995). Morphology in Skilled Word Recognition. In: Leong, C.K., Joshi, R.M. (eds) Developmental and Acquired Dyslexia. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1241-5_14
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