ETT pp Time: Tuesday 10:40-12:10 Room: Instructor: Mafuyu Kitahara Material: Balota D. A. (1994) Visual word recognition in M. A. Gernsbacher (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp , San Diego: Academic Press. If not rules, then what? Dual route model (Coltheart, 1978): Assembled route = assemble parts by rules Direct route = get whole-word directly Balance between the two may differ A:D = 10:0 in Serbo-Croatian A:D = 8:2 in Japanese(?) A:D = 5:5 in English(?) A:D = 3:7 in Hebrew(?) Orthographic depth = transparency between the spelling-to-sound correspondence Dual route Why dual? Assembled route necessary for non-words Activation synthesis approach analogies from similar words is enough: no need for assembled route