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In the work presented here, the length effect in nonword reading aloud was investigated in order to assess whether that effect is driven by the number of letters in a string or by the number of graphemes in a string. Simulation work with the Dual-Route Cascaded (DRC) model (e.g., Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Coltheart & Rastle, 1994) uncovered a surprising finding regarding the length effect; the same result was obtained in an experiment with human subjects. The results are discussed in terms of the DRC model, with particular reference to serial processing and interphoneme inhibition, two properties critical to understanding the effect reported here.
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We are grateful to Dave Balota, Derek Besner, and Ken Paap for helpful suggestions regarding an earlier version of this article. We are similarly grateful to Dave Plaut for running simulations on the attractor network, and to Jo Ziegler and Conrad Perry for helpful and critical discussion.
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Rastle, K., Coltheart, M. Whammies and double whammies: The effect of length on nonword reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 5, 277–282 (1998). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212951
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