The Initial Capitalization Superiority Effect in German: Evidence for a Perceptual Frequency Variant of the Orthographic Cue Hypothesis of Visual Word Recognition. Jacobs, A. M., Nuerk, H., Graf, R., Braun, M., & Nazir, T. A. Psychological Research, 72(6):657–665, November, 2008. ![The Initial Capitalization Superiority Effect in German: Evidence for a Perceptual Frequency Variant of the Orthographic Cue Hypothesis of Visual Word Recognition [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex A perceptual frequency variant of the orthographic cue (OC) hypothesis (Peressotti, Cubelli, & Job, 2003) was tested in two perceptual identification experiments using the variable viewing position technique: German nouns and non-nouns that are most frequently perceived with or without initial letter capitalization, respectively, were tachistoscopically presented in upper-case, lower-case, or with initial capitalization. The results indicated that words were best recognized in the form they are most frequently perceived in, which suggests that during reading acquisition abstract as well as case- and item-specific OCs may be learned and used for recognition.
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title = {The {Initial} {Capitalization} {Superiority} {Effect} in {German}: {Evidence} for a {Perceptual} {Frequency} {Variant} of the {Orthographic} {Cue} {Hypothesis} of {Visual} {Word} {Recognition}},
volume = {72},
issn = {1430-2772},
shorttitle = {The initial capitalization superiority effect in {German}},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0168-0},
doi = {10.1007/s00426-008-0168-0},
abstract = {A perceptual frequency variant of the orthographic cue (OC) hypothesis (Peressotti, Cubelli, \& Job, 2003) was tested in two perceptual identification experiments using the variable viewing position technique: German nouns and non-nouns that are most frequently perceived with or without initial letter capitalization, respectively, were tachistoscopically presented in upper-case, lower-case, or with initial capitalization. The results indicated that words were best recognized in the form they are most frequently perceived in, which suggests that during reading acquisition abstract as well as case- and item-specific OCs may be learned and used for recognition.},
language = {en},
number = {6},
urldate = {2019-04-20},
journal = {Psychological Research},
author = {Jacobs, Arthur M. and Nuerk, Hans-Christoph and Graf, Ralf and Braun, Mario and Nazir, Tatjana A.},
month = nov,
year = {2008},
keywords = {Initial Capitalization, Lexical Access, Root Mean Square Deviation, Visual Word Recognition, Word Recognition},
pages = {657--665}
}
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