Article: Effects of word familiarity and phoneme-grapheme polygraphy on oral spelling time and accuracy.

The cognitive psychology of spelling mirrors the study of word recognition in reading research. Early research on word recognition focused on the question of phonological mediation (Rubenstein, Lewis, & Rubenstein, 1971); more recently dual-route theories incorporating both a phonological and a direct route have been dominant (McCusker, Hillinger, & Bias, 1981); and even more recently, the development of connectionist models has suggested that a division into two routes may not be necessary (Seidenberg & McClelland, 1989). Jacobs and Grainger (1994, p. 1311) describe models of word recognition as becoming "more microscopic, more dynamic, and more complex." The cognitive ...

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