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The orthographic consistency effect in the recognition of French spoken words: An early developmental shift from sublexical to lexical orthographic activation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

CHOTIGA PATTAMADILOK ,
JOSÉ MORAIS ,
OLIVIA DE VYLDER ,
PAULO VENTURA  and
RÉGINE KOLINSKY
CHOTIGA PATTAMADILOK*
Affiliation:
Université Libre de Bruxelles and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, F.N.R.S.
JOSÉ MORAIS
Affiliation:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
OLIVIA DE VYLDER
Affiliation:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
PAULO VENTURA
Affiliation:
Universidade de Lisboa
RÉGINE KOLINSKY
Affiliation:
Université Libre de Bruxelles and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, F.N.R.S.
*
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Chotiga Pattamadilok, Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 191, 50 Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, Brussels 1050, Belgium. E-mail: cpattama@ulb.ac.be
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Abstract

The generality of the orthographic consistency effect in speech recognition tasks previously reported for Portuguese beginning readers was assessed in French-speaking children, as the French orthographic code presents a higher degree of inconsistency than the Portuguese one. Although the findings obtained with the French second graders replicated the generalized consistency effect (both for words and pseudowords, in both lexical decision and shadowing) displayed by the Portuguese second to fourth graders, the data obtained with the French third and fourth graders resembled the adult pattern, with the orthographic effect restricted to lexical decision. This suggests that, in the course of literacy acquisition, the overall orthographic inconsistency of the language's orthographic code influences the rate at which orthographic representations will impact on spoken word recognition.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 441 - 462
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