Reading response latencies in Spanish: effects of lexicality and frequency

Difalcis, Micaela; Ferreres, Aldo; Abusamra, Valeria

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Reading response latencies in Spanish: effects of lexicality and frequency

dc.contributor.author	Difalcis, Micaela
dc.contributor.author	Ferreres, Aldo
dc.contributor.author	Abusamra, Valeria
dc.date.accessioned	2020-04-02T08:58:15Z
dc.date.available	2020-04-02T08:58:15Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this work was to design and apply a test of reading words and non-words (PaNoPa) to study the response latencies in Spanish-speaking subjects. A single previous study had reported such effects but the test used did not control lexical variables (number and frequency of orthographic neighbors) or sublexical variables (frequency of bigram and initial phonemes) that are important for the correct analysis of latencies. The study of effects of lexicality and frequency in control participants is relevant for the discussion on the universality of psycholinguistic reading models and also for the characterization of reading disorders due to brain lesions (acquired dyslexia) in Spanish-speaking subjects. With an exhaustively controlled test, reading latencies were obtained in a sample of Spanish-speaking readers and an ANOVA analysis was carried out by subject and by type of stimulus. The results showed significantly lower latencies for words with respect to non-words (lexicality effect) and for frequent words regarding infrequent words (frequency effect). A significant difference was also found between the latencies of the infrequent words and the non-words. These findings provide evidence in favor of the existence of a lexical reading route in a transparent language such as Spanish and provide a tool and data for the psycholinguistic study of the reading alterations of Spanish-speaking subjects with acquired dyslexia.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	23	es
dc.identifier.issn	2340-8685
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/89194
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Asociación Española de Comprensión Lectora	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Nº 10 (2018)	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Response latency	es
dc.subject	Reading	es
dc.subject	Dual route model	es
dc.subject	Frequency	es
dc.subject	Lexicality	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::37 - Educación. Enseñanza. Formación. Tiempo libre	es
dc.title	Reading response latencies in Spanish: effects of lexicality and frequency	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es