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Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Grainger, Jonathan – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
A letter-search task was used to test the hypothesis that affixes are chunked during morphological processing and that such chunking might operate differently for prefixes and suffixes. Participants had to detect a letter target that was embedded either in a prefix or suffix (e.g., "R" in "propoint" or "filmure") or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Suffixes, Morphology (Languages)
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Doignon-Camus, Nadège; Seigneuric, Alix; Perrier, Emeline; Sisti, Aurélie; Zagar, Daniel – Annals of Dyslexia, 2013
To evaluate the orthographic and phonological processing skills of developmental dyslexics, we (a) examined their abilities to exploit properties of orthographic redundancy and (b) tested whether their phonological deficit extends to spelling-to-sound connections for large-grain size units such as syllables. To assess the processing skills in…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Redundancy, Phonology, Dyslexia
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Moore, Daniele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This contribution documents the strategies bi/plurilingual children spontaneously develop when confronted with a task that demands comprehension of texts in a third language. To illustrate these strategies in context, the paper draws from classroom interaction excerpts: small groups of children (ages 8-10) discover meaning in a text in a language…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Learning Strategies