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Wood, Carla L.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Hart, Sara – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study aimed to describe 1-year changes in students' vocabulary in written narratives. Secondary aims included examination of accuracy and the relationship between lexical diversity and achievement. Participants included 749 students in first through eighth grades. Within-subjects 1-year change in diversity, productivity, and accuracy was…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Written Language
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Paizi, Despina; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi; Burani, Cristina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Stress assignment to Italian polysyllabic words is unpredictable, because stress is neither marked nor predicted by rule. Stress assignment, especially to low frequency words, has been reported to be a function of stress dominance and stress neighbourhood. Two experiments investigate stress assignment in sixth-grade, skilled and dyslexic, readers.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Word Frequency, Word Recognition, Italian