Orthographic Cues to Stress Affect Reading in Connected Text: Evidence From a Letter-Detection Task.
In English, written word endings act as probabilistic cues to a word's lexical stress pattern. Readers are sensitive to these statistical associations between lexical stress and spelling, using word endings' spellings to guide stress placement when reading isolated words. However, we do not yet know...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 354 - 363 |
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Canadian Psychological Association
Oct2024
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