Arnold

BCS 261, spring 2003

Van Orden, Guy. (1987). A ROWS is a ROSE: Spelling, sound, and reading. Memory and Cognition 15(3), 181-198.

Reading Questions:

Is there any evidence (either direct or indirect) for or against the delayed phonology hypothesis? If so, what is it?

The dual-route model and the verification model make different predictions about how frequency affects the rate of false positives in a categorization task like the one used in this paper. What are these predictions? Which one is supported in Experiment 3?

A basic finding in word recognition is the interaction between word frequency and consistency (sometimes called regularity, or the degree to which the spelling is mapped onto sound in the same way as in other English words). Different models have different accounts for this – pick one and describe it briefly.