In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from
vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition …

Most words in English have more than one syllable, yet the most influential computational
models of reading aloud are restricted to processing monosyllabic words. Here, we present …

In the present study, we reexamined the effect of word length (number of letters in a word) on
lexical decision. Using the English Lexicon Project, which is based on a large data set of …

Abstract The French Lexicon Project involved the collection of lexical decision data for
38,840 French words and the same number of nonwords. It was directly inspired by the …

The visual word recognition literature has been dominated by the study of monosyllabic
words in factorial experiments, computational models, and megastudies. However, it is not …

Empirical work and models of visual word recognition have traditionally focused on group-
level performance. Despite the emphasis on the prototypical reader, there is clear evidence …

Over the last 20 years, reading has been the focus of much research using functional
imaging. A formal assessment of the implications of this work for a more general …

Researchers have extensively documented how various statistical properties of words (eg,
word frequency) influence lexical processing. However, the impact of lexical variables on …

Two eye movement experiments investigated the nature of the phonological representations
used in reading English. Each tested whether sublexical, syllable information is part of that …