Brysbaert Marc, Vantieghem Anke
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Psychol Belg. 2023 Jul 17;63(1):82-91. doi: 10.5334/pb.1189. eCollection 2023.
Silent reading often involves phonological encoding of the text in addition to orthographic processing. The nature of the phonological code is debated, however: Is it an abstract code or does it contain information about the pronunciation of the visual stimulus? To answer this question, we investigated the relationship between articulation speed and reading speed, both for silent reading and reading aloud. We investigated whether people with fast articulation speed read faster than people with slow articulation speed. We recruited 94 participants, who in a Zoom session were asked to read short texts silently or aloud. They were also asked to talk about their lives and say the numbers 1-10 or the months of the year as quickly as possible. Finally, they completed an online vocabulary test and an author recognition test. Multiple regression analysis and cluster analysis showed that although the speed of reading aloud and silent reading correlated to some extent, they belonged to two different clusters. Reading aloud was mainly related to talking fluency and articulation speed, while silent reading was more related to vocabulary and knowledge about fiction authors. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the phonological code in silent reading typically does not contain articulatory information, although our data do not rule out the possibility that this may be the case for a small percentage of people or when people read more difficult texts.
默读除了涉及正字法加工外，通常还包括对文本的语音编码。然而，语音编码的性质存在争议：它是一种抽象代码，还是包含有关视觉刺激发音的信息？为了回答这个问题，我们研究了默读和朗读时发音速度与阅读速度之间的关系。我们调查了发音速度快的人是否比发音速度慢的人阅读速度更快。我们招募了94名参与者，在Zoom会议中要求他们默读或朗读短文。他们还被要求谈论自己的生活，并尽可能快地说出1到10的数字或一年中的月份。最后，他们完成了一项在线词汇测试和一项作者识别测试。多元回归分析和聚类分析表明，虽然朗读和默读速度在一定程度上相关，但它们属于两个不同的聚类。朗读主要与说话流畅性和发音速度有关，而默读则更多地与词汇以及对小说作者的了解有关。这些发现与以下假设一致，即默读中的语音编码通常不包含发音信息，尽管我们的数据并不排除这种情况可能适用于一小部分人或人们阅读更难的文本时的可能性。
