To recognise irregular words when reading, you have to use your visual memory".
Most lower-attaining students at KS3 will tend to have varying difficulty with decoding polysyllabic and irregular words, being reliant on sight vocabulary and basic phonics to get by.
Many of the other ingredients for success that they identify orthography, geography and history—have nothing to do with how schools are run, or what happens in classrooms.In Finnish, exceptionally, each letter makes a single logical sound and there are no irregular words.
Reading was characterised by difficulty with irregular words and homophones but intact reading of nonwords.
Spanish, but not French, bilinguals showed a similar effect when reading Irregular words.
Such facts appear to include knowing how to pronounce irregular words and knowing whether a letter string is a word.
We illustrate these different mechanisms using data from an fMRI study of neural activity during reading aloud of regular words, irregular words, and pseudowords.
Since in Brazilian Portuguese there are few irregular words, it is possible that morphological processing does not play an important role in reading this language.
This is relevant because, as previously argued by Chomsky and Halle (1968), in less transparent languages (such as English and French), morphology would be important for reading irregular words (that is, words that do not follow the languages' grapheme-phoneme conversion rules).
It includes phonological fluency tests, a visual naming task, assessing the passive lexical stock, reading irregular words and spelling tasks.
However, irregular words are likely to rely on the lexical route to a higher extent; this should be interesting for further investigation.
