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Statistical learning of semantic and graphotactic regularities: evidence from artificial orthography learning experiments

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Written languages are complex. English orthography not only reflects phoneme-grapheme mappings, but it also includes other regularities related to form-meaning mappings and graphotactics. Pseudoword experiments have shown that children and adults are sensitive to these patterns, which can influence their spelling choices even when they have not been explicitly taught the patterns or are unable to verbalise them. From this perspective, spelling acquisition can be viewed as a process of stat...

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University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
Education
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University College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Education
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University of Oxford
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MSD
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Experimental Psychology
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0000-0001-5048-6107


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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford


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2026-01-04
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