ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2020
The role of phonology during visual word learning in adults: An integrative review.
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- Cross-language phonological activation in bilingual visual word recognition: A meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
- Context and prior phonological knowledge as a support for novel word learning: A computational study with the BRAID-Acq model.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- On the Linguistic and Cognitive Factors that Predict Reading Abilities Among Arabic-Speaking University Students.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Orthographic learning in adults through overt and covert reading.Acta psychologica · 2023Article
- Phonological similarity between words is represented in declarative memory as spatial distance.Psychological research · 2023Article
- The role of orthographic and phonological processing during reading Chinese sentences: Evidence from eye movements.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Phonological precision for word recognition in skilled readers.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2022Article
- Spoken words activate native and non-native letter-to-sound mappings: Evidence from eye tracking.Brain and language · 2021Article
- Graphomotor memory in Exner's area enhances word learning in the blind.Communications biology · 2021Article
- ERP Correlates of Altered Orthographic-Phonological Processing in Dyslexia.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Contrasting Similar Words Facilitates Second Language Vocabulary Learning in Children by Sharpening Lexical Representations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- An ERP investigation of orthographic precision in deaf and hearing readers.Neuropsychologia · 2020Article
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Abstract
Throughout their lifetime, adults learn new words in their native lannguage, and potentially also in a second language. However, they do so with variable levels of success. In the auditory word learning literature, some of this variability has been attributed to phonological skills, including decoding and phonological short-term memory. Here I examine how the relationship between phonological skills and word learning applies to the visual modality. I define the availability of phonology in terms of (1) the extent to which it is biased by the learning environment, (2) the characteristics of the words to be learned, and (3) individual differences in phonological skills. Across these three areas of research, visual word learning improves when phonology is made more available to adult learners, suggesting that phonology can facilitate learning across modalities. However, the facilitation is largely specific to alphabetic languages, which have predictable sublexical correspondences between orthography and phonology. Therefore, I propose that phonology bootstraps visual word learning by providing a secondary code that constrains and refines developing orthographic representations.
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