Neuroimaging work from developmental and reading intervention research has suggested a cause of reading failure may be lack of engagement of parietotemporal cortex during initial acquisition of grapheme-phoneme (letter-sound) mappings. Parietotemporal activation increases following grapheme-phoneme learning and successful reading intervention. Further, stimulation of parietotemporal cortex impr...

OBJECTIVE Examine deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children's phonological processing skills in relation to a reference group of children with normal hearing (NH) at two baselines pre intervention. Study the effects of computer-assisted phoneme-grapheme correspondence training in the children. Specifically analyze possible effects on DHH children's phonological processing skills. METHODS The st...

BACKGROUND Current cognitive models propose that multiple processes are involved in reading and writing. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to use linguistic analyses to clarify the cognitive dysfunction behind two classic alexic syndromes. METHODS We report four experiments on two patients, one with alexia without agraphia following occipitotemporal lesions, and one with alexia with agraphia from a le...

There is emerging evidence that the encoding of visual information and the maintenance of this information in a temporarily accessible state in working memory rely on the same neural mechanisms. A consequence of this overlap is that atypical forms of perception should influence working memory. We examined this by investigating whether having grapheme-color synesthesia, a condition characterized...

Inspired by the success of English grapheme-to-phoneme research in speech synthesis, many researchers have proposed phoneme-based English-to-Chinese transliteration models. However, such approaches have severely suffered from the errors in Chinese phoneme-to-grapheme conversion. To address this issue, we propose a new English-to-Chinese transliteration model and make systematic comparisons with...

We present experimental results concerning the application of the IGTree decision-tree learning algorithm to Dutch word pronunciation. We evaluate four diierent Dutch word pronunciation systems conngured to test the utility of modularization of grapheme{to{phoneme transcription (G) and stress prediction (S). Both training and testing data are extracted from the CELEX II lexical database. Experi...