German and English Bodies: No Evidence for Cross-Linguistic Differences in Preferred Orthographic Grain Size

German and English Bodies: No Evidence for Cross-Linguistic Differences in Preferred Orthographic Grain Size

Previous studies have found that words and nonwords with many body neighbours (i.e., words with the same orthographic body, e.g., 'cat, brat, at') are read faster than items with fewer body neighbours. This body-N effect has been explored in the context of cross-linguistic differences in r...

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Main Authors: Xenia Schmalz, Serje Robidoux, Anne Castles, Max Coltheart, Eva Marinus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2017-03-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
Subjects:
Psycholinguistic grain size theory
failure to replicate
body-rime correspondences
sublexical processing
Bayes Factor
Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/72

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