Wolf, Merel C, Meyer, Antje S, Rowland, Caroline F 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8675-8669 and Hintz, Florian
(2021)
The Effects of Input Modality, Word Difficulty and Reading Experience on Word Recognition Accuracy.
Collabra: Psychology, 7 (1).
Abstract
<jats:p>Language users encounter words in at least two different modalities. Arguably, the most frequent encounters are in spoken or written form. Previous research has shown that – compared to the spoken modality – written language features more difficult words. An important question is whether input modality has effects on word recognition accuracy. In the present study, we investigated whether input modality (spoken, written, or bimodal) affected word recognition accuracy and whether such a modality effect interacted with word difficulty. Moreover, we tested whether the participants’ reading experience interacted with word difficulty and whether this interaction was influenced by modality. We re-analyzed data from 48 Dutch university students that were collected in the context of a vocabulary test development to assess in which modality test words should be presented. Participants carried out a word recognition task, where non-words and words of varying difficulty were presented in auditory, visual and audio-visual modalities. In addition, they completed a receptive vocabulary and an author recognition test to measure their exposure to literary texts. Our re-analyses showed that word difficulty interacted with reading experience in that frequent readers (i.e., with more exposure to written texts) were more accurate in recognizing difficult words than individuals who read less frequently. However, there was no evidence for an effect of input modality on word recognition accuracy, nor for interactions with word difficulty or reading experience. Thus, in our study, input modality did not influence word recognition accuracy. We discuss the implications of this finding and describe possibilities for future research involving other groups of participants and/or different languages.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Behavioral and Social Science, Clinical Research, 1 Underpinning research, 1.2 Psychological and socioeconomic processes, Mental health |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2023 10:10 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2024 16:19 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/collabra.24919 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.24919 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3169982 |
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