| Abstract | The issue of how readers get from the printed word to its lexical representation is a hotly contested one (see Carr & Pollatsek, 1985; Humphreys & Evett, 1985; Van Orden, Pennington, & Stone, 1990, for reviews). Candidate routes are the visual and the phonological. In the visual route, lexical entries are said to be accessed directly on the basis of orthographic properties. The phonological route requires that lexical access be mediated by the recoding of graphemes into their corresponding phonemes. Considerable experimental data have been offered in support of both types of routes. The bulk of research on word identification using English language materials has been taken to implicate the dominance of a visual access route with, perhaps, an optional but not preferred phonological route (e.g., Coltheart, Besner, Jonasson, & Davelaar, 1979; Humphreys & Evett, 1985). Data on word identification using Serbo-Croatian language materials point unequivocally to a nonoptional phonological access route (e.g., Lukatela & Turvey, 1990a, b; Lukatela, Carello, & Turvey, 1990). |
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