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| t123 Diglot Senior Member South Africa https://github.com/t Joined 5612 days ago 139 posts - 226 votes  Speaks: English*, Afrikaans | Message 17 of 19 07 January 2012 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Yes there was, here, again: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/raw linson.html Rawlinson, G. E. (1976) The significance of letter position in word recognition. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Psychology Department, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 19 of 19 09 January 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Sorry, I missed your links first time round as you hadn't made them clickable (there's an icon next to underline of the globe and a chain). Two things: 1) Your first link quite soundly rubbishes the concept anyway. 2) there's a fundamental gap between the statement in the urban myth and Rawlinson's conclusions (which weren't even accepted by any peer-reviewed journal). All myths have origins -- it doesn't stop them being a myth. In particular:
"Higher level units" are a very different thing from individual letters. Consider: The gosht tuhhogt it saw its sodhaw. The mandsinersintug was plebiamtorc buesace it ddin't siut his dpiiistoosn. In the first I broke up initial digraphs (digraphs being a "higher level unit" than letters) and in the second I broke up initial and terminal morphemes (another "higher level unit"). The difficulty this introduces is pretty clear -- and as I said, that's what his research seems to be about.
That's a far more complex reality than the urban myth version (or "internet meme", if you prefer) makes out. As I said, there's a lot of redundancy that this text takes advantage of, which is something pretty clearly implied by Rawlinson's own write-up. The internet version claims it's a simple system of "see letters -> see words". Also, we have to take into account the age of Rawlinson's research -- Rawlinson probably wouldn't have access to much by the way of timing information. What eye/attention-tracking apparatus would have been available to a PhD student in the seventies? He certainly wouldn't have been able to perform brainscans to pinpoint recognition times with the accuracy of modern studies in the field. So it's not unfair to say that it would have taken a fairly big increase in difficulty for the reader for him to even see it. This is not Rawlinson's fault, of course, but for 40-year-old research to be flying round without such a caveat isn't helpful.... Anyway, I'm glad to see that someone has looked closely at the origins of the myth, so thank you very much for providing the links. And again, sorry for not reading them the first time round. Edited by Cainntear on 09 January 2012 at 5:21pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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