TY - JOUR
T1 - The nature of sublexical orthographic organization
T2 - The bigram trough hypothesis examined
AU - Rapp, Brenda C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was made possible by the support of NIH Grants DC0036 and NS22201 as well as Department of Health and Human Services Grant MHl8215 to The Johns Hopkins University. I would like to express my appreciation to William Badecker, Alfonso Caramazza, and Michael McCloskey for their helpful comments on various drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank Ryu Iwai and Philip Mascia for their ef-ticient and dependable assistance in testing subjects. Reprint requests may be sent to Brenda Rapp, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 212182699.
PY - 1992/2
Y1 - 1992/2
N2 - Certain theories of reading assume the representation and manipulation of sublexical entities while others do not. Consistent with the latter, M. Seidenberg (1987, in Attention and performance XII: The psychology of reading. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum; 1989, in Linguistic Structure i in Language Processing. Dordrecht: Kluwer) and M. Seidenberg and J. L. McClelland (1989, Psychological Review, 96, No. 4, 523-568) have proposed that previously reported effects of syllabic and morphological structure can be best understood as resulting from the common co-occurrence of these sublexical entities and a pattern of bigram frequencies referred to as a "bigram trough." This claim is examined using lexical decision and illusory conjunction paradigms. The reliable effects of syllabic and morphological structure that are observed cannot, however, be accounted for by the presence or absence of bigram troughs. The implications of such findings for the connectionist theory of reading proposed by M. Seidenberg and J. L. McClelland (op. cit.) are discussed.
AB - Certain theories of reading assume the representation and manipulation of sublexical entities while others do not. Consistent with the latter, M. Seidenberg (1987, in Attention and performance XII: The psychology of reading. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum; 1989, in Linguistic Structure i in Language Processing. Dordrecht: Kluwer) and M. Seidenberg and J. L. McClelland (1989, Psychological Review, 96, No. 4, 523-568) have proposed that previously reported effects of syllabic and morphological structure can be best understood as resulting from the common co-occurrence of these sublexical entities and a pattern of bigram frequencies referred to as a "bigram trough." This claim is examined using lexical decision and illusory conjunction paradigms. The reliable effects of syllabic and morphological structure that are observed cannot, however, be accounted for by the presence or absence of bigram troughs. The implications of such findings for the connectionist theory of reading proposed by M. Seidenberg and J. L. McClelland (op. cit.) are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0749-596X(92)90004-H
DO - 10.1016/0749-596X(92)90004-H
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001852635
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 31
SP - 33
EP - 53
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
IS - 1
ER -