The use of phonological codes in word recognition was examined in hearing and hearing-impaired readers with a semantic categorization task. The word to be categorized was either a member of the category, a homophone of the member (Homophone foil-HF) or orthographically similar to the member (Spelling control-SC). In one condition, the categorization task was presented with no context and in another it was preceded by a sentence context. Hearing readers made more errors on HFs than SCs in both conditions providing evidence for the use of phonology. However this was limited to low frequency items. Good hearing-impaired readers did not show phonological effects in either condition, while poor hearing-impaired readers showed a phonological effect in the context condition. Results are discussed in light of theoretical and practical implications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.69597 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Nemeth-Sinclair, Susan |
| Contributors | Waters, Gloria (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (School of Human Communication Disorders.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001319495, proquestno: AAIMM87959, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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