{"pk":33146,"title":"Why Semantics Lags Behind Phonology in Word Indentification","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Because meaning is both the common outcome and the typical goal of language processing, including reading, semantic processes have received a privileged position, especially in cognitive science accounts that emphasize semantic, goal driven components in language. Even in accounts of written word identification, a \"low-level\" process, it is typical to assume that semantic outputs are achieved with optional contributions of phonology. Our goal here is to present evidence for an alternative perspective, one that gives phonology a central rather than a peripheral, optional role in word identification. W e first briefly discuss a writing system comparison that is important to this perspective. W e then summarize recent published and unpublished research that gives definition to our conclusion that phonology is a central and universal component of word reading.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/431520cp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Charles","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Perfetti","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Li","middle_name":"Hai","last_name":"Tan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Sulan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Mara","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Georgi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33146/galley/24207/download/"}]}