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So far, we have discussed empirical findings indicating that phonology is involved in visual word recognition and reading. Psycholinguistic research is more than documenting empirical effects, however. Researchers want to integrate the findings in a coherent theory.

Computational models are the most informative to understand the mechanisms involved in word processing as implementation requires a detailed description of the operations involved (see Seidenberg et al., this volume). This is in contrast to verbal models which often resort to analogies with human intuition (Ward, 1998).

We limit our discussion to three computational models that include phonology. There are other models of visual word processing without assembled phonology, not discussed here (see Davis, 2010; Norris & Kinoshita, 2012; Whitney, 2001). So far, no computational model has been proposed for the strong phonological theory. The models we discuss are limited to English, and to the processing of monosyllabic words (some 6 000 in total).