Introduction: The perception of syllable stress has not been widely studied in developmental dyslexia, despite strong evidence for auditory rhythmic perceptual difficulties. Here we investigate the hypothesis that perception of sound rise time is related to the perception of syllable stress in adults with developmental dyslexia. Methods: A…

Misperception of nonwords created by adjacent letter transpositions (TL anagrams) indicates that word recognition is based on an orthographic matching process that is tolerant of minor positional errors in the letter sequence. We report five experiments that investigate the extent to which the misperception of TL anagrams is influenced by…