Factors Influencing the Accurate Identification of Written Minimal Pairs with Graphemic Similarity: Evidence from Persian-Speaking Children and Adults

Autor/inn/en	Arab, Sepideh; Bijankhan, Mahmood; Eshghi, Marziye
Titel	Factors Influencing the Accurate Identification of Written Minimal Pairs with Graphemic Similarity: Evidence from Persian-Speaking Children and Adults
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 51 (2022) 6, S.1267-1281 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bijankhan, Mahmood)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-022-09890-8
Schlagwörter	Accuracy; Indo European Languages; Reaction Time; Comparative Analysis; Word Recognition; Syllables; Morphemes; Alphabets; Gender Differences; Identification; Task Analysis; Adults; Children; Graphemes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Indoeuropäisch; Reaktionsvermögen; Worterkennung; Silbe; Morphem; Buchstabenschrift; Geschlechterkonflikt; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Aufgabenanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	In this study, we compared children's and adults' ability to accurately identify target words in written minimal pairs (WMPs) with graphemically similar letters while accounting for factors such as gender, similarity of the middle letter in WMPs, mono- versus dimorphemic WMPs, number of syllable, homography, and imageability. Fifty children and fifty adults were exposed to a distractor stimulus as a pre-mask, followed by the target, and then a post-mask stimulus. Subsequently, the corresponding WMPs including the target word and its graphemically minimal contrast were presented to the participants to obtain their reaction time (RT) in accurately identifying the target word. Results demonstrated that children tend to slow down their reaction as a compensatory strategy to circumvent their less mature knowledge of graphophonic units/morphemes to achieve accuracy during word recognition. In addition, among all controlled factors, children's RT was significantly influenced by similarity of the middle letter in the WMPs. Adults' RT, however, was influenced by factors such as gender, similarity of the middle letter in WMPs, and homography. (As Provided).
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