Reading words and sentences in spanish

Theaimofthischapteristosketchanoverviewoftheresearchthathasbeencarriedout on reading in Spanish at the word and sentence level. The study of Spanishpsycholinguistics has played an important role in the converging evidence sup-portingcurrenttheoriesofprocessingatthewordandsentencelevel.Moreover,ithasalsochallengedtheenduringbiastowardmodelsoflanguageprocessingbasedon data collected exclusively from the English language.Thishas also contributedto the larger goal of moving towards a comprehensive theory of language proces-sing that is built on data that are not language specific, while taking into consid-eration specific language features that can modulate processing. The mainsubtopicsaddressedandthemainfindingsfromSpanishpsycholinguisticresearchwill be described. The first half of the chapter will be devoted to the recognition ofprinted words, while the second part will describe the research on sentenceprocessing.Efficientreadingisbasedonthecorrectrecognitionandprocessingofindividualprinted words, which constitute the primary building blocks of language proces-sing, and on the assembly of the words into phrases and sentences. Research onvisual word recognition in Spanish can help to characterize the universal and thelanguage-specificmechanismsofwordrecognition.Inthischapter,wewillrefertosome of the unique features of Spanish and describe how they have an impact onthe core processes of word processing. These features are: alphabetical orthogra-phy;quasi-univocalgrapheme-to-phonememappings;clearsyllabicstructure;richmorphology; and close coexistence with other languages. In Section 2, we willpresent some of the basic findings from each of these research topics that haveprovided important insights into how printed words are perceived, encoded, andprocessed.

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