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TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovering large grain sizes in a transparent orthography: Insights from a connectionist model of Italian word naming
AU - Pagliuca, Giovanni
AU - Monaghan, Padraic
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Classic connectionist models of reading have traditionally focused on English, a language with a quasiregular (deep) relationship between orthography and phonology, and very little work has been conducted on more transparent (shallow) orthographies. This paper introduces a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of reading for Italian. The model was explicitly developed in order to deal with polysyllabic words and stress assignment. One of the core issues regarding such PDP models is whether they can show sensitivity to large grain sizes, as documented by the existence of morphological and neighbourhood effects in nonword reading aloud showed by native Italian speakers (Arduino Burani, 2004; Burani, Marcolini, de Luca, Zoccolotti, 2008). The model is successful in simulating these effects, previously accounted for by dual route architectures. The model was also able to simulate stress consistency effects.
AB - Classic connectionist models of reading have traditionally focused on English, a language with a quasiregular (deep) relationship between orthography and phonology, and very little work has been conducted on more transparent (shallow) orthographies. This paper introduces a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of reading for Italian. The model was explicitly developed in order to deal with polysyllabic words and stress assignment. One of the core issues regarding such PDP models is whether they can show sensitivity to large grain sizes, as documented by the existence of morphological and neighbourhood effects in nonword reading aloud showed by native Italian speakers (Arduino Burani, 2004; Burani, Marcolini, de Luca, Zoccolotti, 2008). The model is successful in simulating these effects, previously accounted for by dual route architectures. The model was also able to simulate stress consistency effects.
KW - Grain size
KW - Modelling
KW - Morphology
KW - Naming
KW - Neighbourhood size
KW - Orthographic depth
KW - Stress assignment
KW - READING ALOUD
KW - RECOGNITION
KW - ACQUISITION
KW - PRONUNCIATION
KW - CONSISTENCY
KW - FREQUENCY
KW - LANGUAGES
KW - DYSLEXIA
U2 - 10.1080/09541440903172158
DO - 10.1080/09541440903172158
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 813
EP - 835
JO - European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
JF - European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
SN - 0954-1446
IS - 5
ER -