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S/PS/145. Effects of familiarity and age-of-acquisition on word recognition

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2008
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The paper describes the experiment of testing how age-of-acquisition (AoA) and familiarity affect word recognition during the reading process. The theories of the dual-route model of reading and lexical decision task (LDT) are reviewed, the research findings are discussed making conclusions about predictors of word recognition speed in LDT.

 

KEYWORDS: Reading, word recognition, lexical, non-lexical,

 
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