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Niolaki, Georgia Z.; Vousden, Janet; Terzopoulos, Aris R.; Taylor, Laura M.; Sephton, Shani; Masterson, Jackie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: The study aimed to explore to what extent variables associated with lexical and sublexical spelling processes predicted single word spelling ability and whether patterns of lexical and sublexical processes were different across ages. Methods: Beginning (mean age 7 years, N=144) and advanced (mean age 9 years, N=114) English-speaking…
Descriptors: Spelling, Literacy, Language Patterns, Prediction
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Mahler, N. A.; Chenery, H. J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
The current investigation examined the developmental changes involved in processing semantic context in auditorily presented sentences, as well as underlying attentional and suppression mechanisms. Thirty-nine typically developing school-aged children aged 6;0-14;0 years participated in the current cross-sectional sentential auditory word…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Cloze Procedure, Auditory Perception
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Mller, Ulrich; Zelazo, Philip David; Hood, Suzanne; Leone, Tullia; Rohrer, Lisa – Child Development, 2004
Three experiments examined 3- to 6-year-olds' interference control using a task in which children saw 2 corresponding sets of colored cards, a large set in front of them and a small set behind them. A colored candy (Smartie) was placed on a large card with mismatching color, and children could win the Smartie by selecting the small card that…
Descriptors: Attention, Language Processing