Psihologija 2012 Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages: 361-376
https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI1204361V
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Reading sentences in Serbian: Effects of alphabet and reading mode in self-paced reading task
Vejnović Dušan (Faculty of Education, Novi Sad + Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Novi Sad)
Jovanović Tamara (Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad)
The study examined the influence of alphabet (Cyrillic vs. Latin) and reading
mode (silent reading vs. reading aloud) on sentence reading speed in Serbian.
Entire-sentence and single-word reading times were obtained from the moving
window paradigm in the self-paced sentence reading task. Sentences printed in
Latin took less time for reading than sentences printed in Cyrillic and
silent reading was more rapid than reading aloud. Single-word processing
results followed the pattern observed in entire-sentence analysis. Faster
reading of Latin sentences and words is likely a consequence of subjects’
predominant exposure to this alphabet. Reading aloud was slower than silent
reading due to the articulation process, which is present in the former but
not in the latter. The effect of the alphabet did not depend on reading mode,
suggesting that the two modes of reading involve essentially same cognitive
processes. Aloud reading procedures do not seem inappropriate for the
research of bialphabetism.
Keywords: bialphabetism, sentence reading, reading aloud, silent reading, self-paced reading Task
Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
ON179033