Rules versus statistics in reading aloud: New evidence on an old debate

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 798-812

  Perry, Conrad ^a   Ziegler, Johannes C ^b   Braun, Mario ^c   Zorzi, Marco ^d  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Connectionism; German; Reading Aloud; Rules

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; READING; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOUND; SPELLING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; STIMULUS; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954968378     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440902978365     Document Type: Review

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