Title |
Language context modulates reading route: an electrical neuroimaging study
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Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2014
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DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00083 |
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Authors |
Karin A. Buetler, Diego de León Rodríguez, Marina Laganaro, René Müri, Lucas Spierer, Jean-Marie Annoni |
Abstract |
The orthographic depth hypothesis (Katz and Feldman, 1983) posits that different reading routes are engaged depending on the type of grapheme/phoneme correspondence of the language being read. Shallow orthographies with consistent grapheme/phoneme correspondences favor encoding via non-lexical pathways, where each grapheme is sequentially mapped to its corresponding phoneme. In contrast, deep orthographies with inconsistent grapheme/phoneme correspondences favor lexical pathways, where phonemes are retrieved from specialized memory structures. This hypothesis, however, lacks compelling empirical support. The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of orthographic depth on reading route selection using a within-subject design. |
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