Tongue-Twister Effects in the Silent Reading of Hearing and Deaf College Students.
| Number | 756 |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Drawer | 14 |
| Entry Date | 11/08/1999 |
| Authors | Hanson, V. L., Goodell, E. W., & Perfetti, C. A. |
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| Publication | Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 319-330. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0756.pdf |
| Abstract | To investigate whether deaf readers use phonological information during sentence comprehension, 16 deaf and 16 hearing college students performed a semantic acceptability task on tongue-twister and control sentences. Indicative of phonological coding, subjectss' responses were influenced by the phonetic content of the sentence they were reading and by the phonetic content of a concurrent memory load task. That is, the subjects in both groups made more errors in their acceptability judgments when reading tongue-twister than when reading control sentences. In addition, subjects in both groups made more errors when the tongue-twister sentences and concurrent memory load numbers were phonetically similar than when they were phonetically dissimilar. Results support theories that assign phonological processes an important role in reading. |
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