Acceso usuarios
Ludovic Ferrand
This article provides a review of experimental data concerning the role of phonological information in visual word recognition. We start from the distinction between three major theories of visual word recognition, namely the Direct Access theory, the Phonological Mediation theory and the Dual Route theory. Then we review data in favour of the role of both phonology and orthography in the processing of isolated words or words presented in context. We present an alternative view embodied in a modified Interactive Activation model in which we assume that both phonological and orthographic codes can independently influence performance in a number of tasks supposed to reflect basic processes in visual word recognition. Finally, we turn to the general characteristics of this phonological information.
