According to the ‘phonological deficit hypothesis’, problems in reading and spelling in dyslexic persons are due to poor representations of sounds in long term memory. As a result, the acquisition of the grapheme-phoneme correspondence and word decoding is assumed to be difficult. In this paper we describe a perception experiment to find evidence for poor phonological representations in 9-13 ye...

Phonology is held to play a central role in typical reading development (Shankweiler et al., 1979) and sensory or phonological deficits are often held to be a primary cause of reading disability (Snowling, 2008). However, little is known about the nature of phonology at the endpoint of atypical reading development -that is, in adult poor readers. We examined the time course of (auditory) lexica...