Use of context in the word recognition process by adults with a significant history of reading difficulties |
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| Authors: | Julie K Corkett Rauno Parrila |
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| Institution: | (1) Nipissing University, 100 College Dr., North Bay, Ontario, Canada, P1B 8L7;(2) 3-102A Education N, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G5 |
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| Abstract: | We examined whether university students who report a significant history of reading difficulties (RD; n = 24) differed from university students with no history of reading difficulties (NRD; n = 31) in how sentence context affects word recognition. Experiment 1 found no differences in how congruent sentence primes
or syntactic manipulations of the sentence primes affected the performance of the two groups. However, only the RD group displayed
a significant inhibition effect when the target word was preceded by an incongruent sentence prime. Experiment 2 found that
the groups differed in how meaning frequency of the target word and context strength of the sentence prime affected word recognition
latencies. The results suggest that the RD participants’ performance is context-sensitive and better explained by interactive
models of language processing than by modular models. |
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| Keywords: | Context Interactive Lexical access Modular Post-lexical Reading difficulties Word recognition |
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