Date of Award
2006
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Berent, Iris
Abstract
Much evidence suggests that readers assemble phonology in reading, yet little is known about the structure of these phonological representations. Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent prosodic structure via skeletal frames and that unmarked frames are preferred to marked frames. Seven experiments explore the role of the skeleton in reading focusing on these three questions: (a) do readers assemble the skeleton of printed words? (b) do readers prefer certain frames to others? (c) are skeletal preferences due to grammatical markedness and/or to the statistical properties of the language? Experiments I and 2 showed that in a forcedchoice task, readers favor non-words with unmarked eve and cvcc frames (e.g. , GOM/ TUSP) to non-words with marked VCC frame (e.g., ELM), regardless of segment similarity. Li!
Extent
130 p.
Recommended Citation
Marom, Michal, "The Phonological Constraints on the Assembly of Skeletal Structure in Reading: Grammatical or Statistical?" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1172.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1172
Identifier
FA00000869
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2006.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Includes bibliography.