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Peleg, Orna; Ben-hur, Galia; Segal, Osnat – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Studies on reading in individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss (deaf) raise the possibility that, due to deficient phonological coding, deaf individuals may rely more on orthographic-semantic links than on orthographic-phonological links. However, the relative contribution of phonological and semantic information to visual word…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Visual Discrimination, Deafness, Adults
Vernon, Magdalen D., Comp. – 1966
This annotated bibliography on visual perception and its relation to reading is composed of 55 citations ranging in date from 1952 to 1965. Its divisions include Perception of Shape by Young Children, Perception of Words by Children, Perception in Backward Readers, and Perception of Shapes, Letters, and Words by Adults. Listings which include…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Reading Achievement
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Haber, Ralph Norman; Schindler, Robert M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
Subjects instructed to circle misspellings while reading prose were less likely to detect misspellings in function than in content words. Misspellings that changed the shape of a word were more likely to be detected. It is not clear whether differences between function and content words are due to familiarity or redundancy. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adults, Error Analysis (Language), Function Words, Language Patterns