Clayton, Francina Jane and Hulme, Charles (2017) Automatic Activation of Sounds by Letters Occurs Early in Development but is not Impaired in Children With Dyslexia. Scientific Studies of Reading. ISSN 1532-799X
Abstract
The automatic letter-sound integration hypothesis proposes that the decoding difficulties seen in dyslexia arise from a specific deficit in establishing automatic letter-sound associations. We report the findings of 2 studies in which we used a priming task to assess automatic letter-sound integration. In Study 1, children between 5 and 7 years of age were faster to respond to a speech-sound when primed by a congruent letter, indicating that automatic activation of sounds by letters emerges relatively early in reading development. However, there was no evidence of a relationship between variations in the speed of activating sounds by letters and reading skill in this large unselected sample. In Study 2, children with dyslexia demonstrated automatic activation of sounds by letters, though they performed slowly overall. Our findings do not support the theory that a deficit in automatic letter-sound integration is an important cause of reading difficulties but do provide further evidence for the importance of phonological skills for learning to read.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. .This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2017 14:18 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 00:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2017.1390754 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10888438.2017.1390754 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:123803 |
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