Developmental Differences in Sensitivity to Semantic Relations among Good and Poor Comprehenders: Evidence from Semantic Priming.

Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J.

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Publication Date: 1999

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Developmental Differences in Sensitivity to Semantic Relations among Good and Poor Comprehenders: Evidence from Semantic Priming.

Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J.

Cognition, v70 n1 pB1-B13 Feb 1999

Assessed semantic priming for category coordinates and function-related words in children with good or poor reading comprehension, matched for decoding skill. Found that both groups showed priming for function-related words, but poor comprehenders showed priming for category coordinates only if the pairs shared high-association strength. Good comprehenders showed priming for category-related words regardless of association strength. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Semantics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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