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Intrusion of orthographic knowledge on phoneme awareness: Strong in normal readers, weak in dyslexic readers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Karin Landerl ,
Uta Frith  and
Heinz Wimmer
Karin Landerl*
Affiliation:
University of Salzburg
Uta Frith
Affiliation:
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London
Heinz Wimmer
Affiliation:
University of Salzburg
*
Karin Landerl, Department of Psychology,University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
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Abstract

In three typical phonological awareness tasks it was found that children with normal reading development sometimes give responses that are based on orthographic rather than phonological information. In dyslexic children, the number of occurrences of such orthographic intrusions was significantly lower. This effect cannot be explained by positing a lower degree of orthographic knowledge in dyslexic children since a group of younger children who had the same spelling level as the dyslexics also showed more orthographic intrusions. A plausible explanation for this difference between normal and dyslexic readers is that, in normal readers, phonological and orthographic representations of words are so closely connected that they are usually coactivated, even if such a coactivation is misleading. In dyslexics this connection is less strong, so that orthographic representations interfere less with phonemic segmentation. The relevance of this finding with respect to recent assumptions about the importance of phonology in establishing orthographic representations is discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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