Theories of reading should predict reading speed

By Denis G. Pelli, Susana T. L. Chung, Gordon E. Legge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2012

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Abstract A universal property of visual word identification is position-invariant letter identification, such that the letter “A” is coded in the same way in CAT and ACT. This should provide a fundamental constraint on theories of word identification, and, indeed, it inspired some of the theories that Frost has criticized. I show how the spatial coding scheme of Colin Davis (2010) can, in principle, account for contrasting transposed letter (TL) priming effects, and at the same time, position-invariant letter identification.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Effects of primary and secondary morphological family size in monolingual and bilingual word processing (2014, background): “For simulation studies with naive discrimination learning addressing the crucial importance of language-specific distributional properties for understanding cross-linguistic differences in the effects of letter transpositions, see Baayen (2013) in respons to Frost (2012).”
Universals in Learning to Read Across Languages and Writing Systems (2021, background): “A particularly strong hypothesis by Frost (2012) is that each language has its optimal writing system.”
How morphology impacts reading and spelling: advancing the role of morphology in models of literacy development (2020, background): “For starters, there is a consensus that morphology is central in the organization of the mental lexicon across languages (Frost, 2012; Lehtonen & Bryant, 2005; Sandra, 1994).”