• Vladislava Staroverova
  • Anastasiya Lopukhina
  • Nina Zdorova
  • Nina Ladinskaya
  • Olga Vedenina
  • Sofya Goldina
  • Anastasiia Kaprielova
  • Ksenia Bartseva
  • Olga Dragoy

Studies on German and English have shown that children and adults can rely on phonological and orthographic information from the parafovea during reading, but this reliance differs between ages and languages. In the current study, we investigated the development of phonological and orthographic parafoveal processing during silent reading in Russian-speaking 8-year-old children, 10-year-old children, and adults using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm. The participants read sentences with embedded nouns that were presented in original, pseudohomophone, control for pseudohomophone, transposed-letter, and control for transposed-letter conditions in the parafoveal area to assess phonological and orthographic preview benefit effects. The results revealed that all groups of participants relied only on orthographic but not phonological parafoveal information. These findings indicate that 8-year-old children already preprocess parafoveal information similarly to adults.

Original languageEnglish
Article number105571
JournalJournal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume226
Early online date7 Nov 2022
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2023

    Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics

    Research areas

  • Adult, Child, Humans, Reading, Linguistics, Language, Russia, Russian, Eye-tracking, Orthographic processing, Phonological processing, Reading development, Parafoveal processing

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