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Article Dans Une Revue Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Année : 2014

Learning to Spell from Reading: General Knowledge about Spelling Patterns Influences Memory for Specific Words

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Adults often learn to spell words during the course of reading for meaning, without intending to do so. We used an incidental learning task in order to study this process. Spellings that contained double n, r and t which are common doublets in French, were learned more readily by French university students than spellings that contained less common but still legal doublets. When recalling or recognizing the latter, the students sometimes made transposition errors, doubling a consonant that often doubles in French rather than the consonant that was originally doubled (e.g., tiddunar recalled as tidunnar). The results, found in three experiments using different nonwords and different types of instructions, show that people use general knowledge about the graphotactic patterns of their writing system together with word-specific knowledge to reconstruct spellings that they learn from reading. These processes contribute to failures and successes in memory for spellings, as in other domains.
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hal-03158128 , version 1 (03-03-2021)

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Sébastien Pacton, Gaëlle Borchardt, Rebecca Treiman, Bernard Lété, Michel Fayol. Learning to Spell from Reading: General Knowledge about Spelling Patterns Influences Memory for Specific Words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014, 67 (5), pp.1019-1036. ⟨10.1080/17470218.2013.846392⟩. ⟨hal-03158128⟩
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