Sauval, K. & Casalis, S.
University of Lille North of France
The importance of phonological coding considered under strategic control is widely recognized in the young readers. Our study aims evaluating the role of early, non-strategic phonological information in written word recognition. This study aims to reflect the time course of phonological code in French, compared to the orthographic code that occurs before the phonological information. Fifth graders had to complete a lexical decision task with masked priming. There 2 SOAs: 53 and 65 ms. Each target was paired with 4 different primes: pseudohomophone, orthographic, identification, control. The response latencies varied according to conditions and SOAs. The identity prime is the condition which reduces the processing time over the target. Orthographic and phonological codes involved so dissimilar as the SOA.