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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands It has recently been reported that words containing a multiletter grapheme are processed slower than are words composed of single-letter graphemes (Rastle & Coltheart, 1998; Rey, Jacobs, Schmidt-Weigand, & Ziegler, 1998). In the present study, using a perceptual identification task, we found in Experiment 1 that this graphemic complexity effect can be observed while controlling for multiple print-to-sound associations, indexed by regularity or consistency. In Experiment 2, we obtained cumulative effects of graphemic complexity and regularity. These effects were replicated in Experiment 3 in a naming task. Overall, these results indicate that graphemic complexity and multiple print-to-sound associations effects are independent and should be accounted for in different ways by models of written word processing.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Fyssen Foundation to A.R. N.O.S. was supported by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and by a “Vernieuwingsimpuls” grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW).
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Rey, A., Schiller, N.O. Graphemic complexity and multiple print-to-sound associations in visual word recognition. Mem Cogn 33, 76–85 (2005). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195298
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