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Reading in Spanish and Italian: effects of age of acquisition in transparent orthographies?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Davies, Rob Wilson, Maximiliano A. Cuetos, Fernando Burani, Cristina |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Despite the similar transparency of their orthographies, reading in Italian has been found to be affected by frequency but not age of acquisition (AoA) [Barca, L., Burani, C., & Arduino, L. S. (2002). Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns. Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 34, 424-434] while reading in Spanish is affected by AoA but not frequency [Cuetos, F., & Barbón, A. (2006). Word naming in Spanish. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 415-436]. We examined this cross-linguistic difference, firstly, through a reanalysis of the Italian and Spanish reading latencies. After eliminating several between-experiment differences, we replicated the AoA effect in Spanish but not in Italian and the frequency effect in Italian but not in Spanish. The cross-linguistic comparison could not equate stimulus imageability; therefore, secondly, we compared the Italian reading latencies with new Spanish reading latencies for imageability-matched words. We found frequency effects but neither an AoA effect nor a language by AoA interaction. We argue that the previously reported cross-linguistic difference in the AoA effect resulted from a between-study difference in stimulus imageability. More imageable words induced more semantic involvement in reading, yielding an AoA effect in Spanish. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/17470218.2013.872155 |
| PubMed reference number | 24456370 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 67 |
| Issue Number | 9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://puma.isti.cnr.it/rmydownload.php?filename=cnr.istc/cnr.istc/2014-A0-051/2014-A0-051.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.872155 |
| Journal | Quarterly journal of experimental psychology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
