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Set for Variability as a Critical Predictor of Word Reading: Potential Implications for Early Identification and Treatment of Dyslexia.

Laura M Steacy, Ashley A Edwards, Valeria M Rigobon, Nuria Gutierrez, Nancy C Marencin, Noam Siegelman, Alexandra Himelhoch, Cristina Himelhoch, Jay Rueckl, Donald L Compton

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Article in Reading research quarterly. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Statistical learning in spelling and reading.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025
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  4. Modeling Item-Level Spelling Variance in Adults: Providing Further Insights into Lexical Quality.Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura M SteacyFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Ashley A EdwardsFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Valeria M RigobonFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Nuria GutierrezFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Nancy C MarencinFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Noam SiegelmanHaskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT USA.
Alexandra HimelhochFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Cristina HimelhochFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Jay RuecklHaskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT USA.
Donald L ComptonFlorida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL USA.
Florida State University · USHaskins Laboratories · USHebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

Funding

Experiential and child factors that determine acquisition of orthographic-phonological regularities in a quasi-regular writing system: An integrated behavioral/computational/neurobiological approachP20HD091013 · NICHD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI COMPTON, DONALD L · 2017 to 2025
$4.2M
Understanding the underlying relation between phonological clean-up ability and early word reading: A developmental explorationR21HD108771 · NICHD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI STEACY, LAURA · 2022 to 2023
$424k
NICHD NIH HHS P20 HD091013NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD108771
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quasiregular orthographies such as English contain substantial ambiguities between orthography and phonology that force developing readers to acquire flexibility during decoding of unfamiliar words, a skill referred to as a "set for variability" (SfV). The ease with which a child can disambiguate the mismatch between the decoded form of a word and its actual lexical phonological form has been operationalized using the SfV mispronunciation task (e.g., the word

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PMID37213410
PMCPMC10195062
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