TY - JOUR
T1 - Orthographic Neighborhood-Size Effects on the Reading Aloud of Italian Children With and Without Dyslexia
AU - Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
AU - Traficante, Daniela
AU - Zoccolotti, Pierluigi
AU - Burani, Cristina
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This study examines the effects of orthographic neighborhood size (N-size) in relationship with word
frequency on the reading aloud of children with and without dyslexia whose language has a consistent
orthography. Participants included 22 Italian fourth-grade children with dyslexia and 44 age-matched
typically developing readers. Children with dyslexia read low-frequency words with high N-size
faster than words that had no neighbors; by contrast, typically developing readers showed no N-size
effects, irrespective of word frequency. The facilitating effect of N-size on low-frequency word reading
in children with dyslexia indicates that they benefit from lexical activation spreading from dense
neighborhoods.
AB - This study examines the effects of orthographic neighborhood size (N-size) in relationship with word
frequency on the reading aloud of children with and without dyslexia whose language has a consistent
orthography. Participants included 22 Italian fourth-grade children with dyslexia and 44 age-matched
typically developing readers. Children with dyslexia read low-frequency words with high N-size
faster than words that had no neighbors; by contrast, typically developing readers showed no N-size
effects, irrespective of word frequency. The facilitating effect of N-size on low-frequency word reading
in children with dyslexia indicates that they benefit from lexical activation spreading from dense
neighborhoods.
KW - dyslexia
KW - orthographic neighborhood size
KW - reading aloud
KW - dyslexia
KW - orthographic neighborhood size
KW - reading aloud
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/60238
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84882600310&partnerid=40&md5=2231d33fad33f186449be54b0eff759f
U2 - 10.1080/10888438.2012.723080
DO - 10.1080/10888438.2012.723080
M3 - Article
SN - 1088-8438
VL - 17
SP - 333
EP - 349
JO - Scientific Studies of Reading
JF - Scientific Studies of Reading
ER -