Leitura em voz alta e vizinhança ortográfica: acesso lexical e processamento estratégico

Abstract

Two experiments were carried out to investigate the orthographic neighborhood density (N) and neighborhood frequency effects (NF) in reading aloud tasks. The experimental stimuli consisted of 64 words corresponding to a 2x2 factorial manipulation of N and NF. In the first experiment, during a Go/NoGo reading aloud task, an inhibitory NF effect was observed when the words had a high number of neighbors. In the second experiment, a reading aloud task in which the subjects had to pronounce words and pseudowords mixed in the same session, a facilitative N effect was observed. N and NF effects were attributed to different task demands on the process of lexical access.