Meanings
- not comparableIn terms of orthotactics.
Of course, pronounceability is closely tied to orthotactic regularity: letter strings that are orthotactically irregular will tend to be unpronounceable.
2003, Jonathan Grainger et al., “Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal readers”, in Brain and Language, volume 87, number 3, page 4331 more example
According to grapheme-grapheme recoding theory the pseudohomophone effect is due to recoding from a representation of the stimulus grapheme to a representation of an orthotactically related grapheme.
1984, Guy Van Orden, A ROWS is a /ROZ/ is a ROSE: Visual, Phonological, Developmental, and Strategic Influences Upon Lexical Access
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