SERIAL PROCESSING IN READING ALOUD - EVIDENCE FOR DUAL-ROUTE MODELS OF READING

The authors examined the regularity effect on reading aloud as a funct ion of left-to-right phonemic position of irregularity in low-frequenc y exception words. Ss named 96 low-frequency exception words categoriz ed into 5 conditions on the basis of the position (1st through 5th) of their Ist irregular grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence (GPC). Latenci es and error rates for these words were compared with the rates for 96 matched GPC regular controls. Results showed that the cost of irregul arity decreased monotonically over the 5 positions of irregularity. Th is result is offered as evidence for dual-route models of reading and against parallel distributed processing models of reading.