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Sabatini, John; Wang, Zuowei; O'Reilly, Tenaha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
In this secondary analysis study, the authors explored the relations between reading comprehension and oral reading performance in fourth-grade students, using a data set from the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) special study of oral reading. The data set consisted of 1,713 students randomly selected from the 140,000 fourth…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy, Reading Rate
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Herold, Debora S.; Nygaard, Lynne C.; Chicos, Kelly A.; Namy, Laura L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
This study examined whether children use prosodic correlates to word meaning when interpreting novel words. For example, do children infer that a word spoken in a deep, slow, loud voice refers to something larger than a word spoken in a high, fast, quiet voice? Participants were 4- and 5-year-olds who viewed picture pairs that varied along a…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Intonation
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Loui, Psyche; Li, H. Charles; Hohmann, Anja; Schlaug, Gottfried – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Connectivity in the human brain has received increased scientific interest in recent years. Although connection disorders can affect perception, production, learning, and memory, few studies have associated brain connectivity with graded variations in human behavior, especially among normal individuals. One group of normal individuals who possess…
Descriptors: Music, Musicians, Brain, Neuropsychology
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Badcock, Nicholas A.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Hardiman, Mervyn J.; Barry, Johanna G.; Watkins, Kate E. – Brain and Language, 2012
We assessed the relationship between brain structure and function in 10 individuals with specific language impairment (SLI), compared to six unaffected siblings, and 16 unrelated control participants with typical language. Voxel-based morphometry indicated that grey matter in the SLI group, relative to controls, was increased in the left inferior…
Descriptors: Siblings, Language Impairments, Expressive Language, Morphology (Languages)
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McLachlan, Neil; Wilson, Sarah – Psychological Review, 2010
The model presents neurobiologically plausible accounts of sound recognition (including absolute pitch), neural plasticity involved in pitch, loudness and location information integration, and streaming and auditory recall. It is proposed that a cortical mechanism for sound identification modulates the spectrotemporal response fields of inferior…
Descriptors: Attention, Identification, Auditory Perception, Short Term Memory
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Huang, Becky H.; Jun, Sun-Ah – Language and Speech, 2011
This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N = 10 in each group) with varying AoA in the United States and ten native speakers of English as controls participated in the study. All participants read a paragraph of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, North American English
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Cohen-Mimran, Ravit; Sapir, Shimon – Dyslexia, 2007
The role of central auditory processing in reading skill development and reading disorders is unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine whether individuals with specific reading disabilities (SRD) have deficits in processing rapidly presented, serially ordered non-speech auditory signals. To this end, we compared 12 children with SRD and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Test Results, Intervals, Time on Task
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Wong, Puisan; Schwartz, Richard G.; Jenkins, James J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
The present study investigated 3-year-old children's perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones in monosyllabic words. Thirteen 3-year-old, Mandarin-speaking children participated in the study. Tone perception was examined by a picture-pointing task, and tone production was investigated by picture naming. To compare children's productions…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Tone Languages
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Kim, In-Seok – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
This study examines the reliability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) software used to teach English pronunciation, focusing on one particular piece of software, "FluSpeak, as a typical example." Thirty-six Korean English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students participated in an experiment in which they listened to 15 sentences…
Descriptors: Sentences, Pronunciation, Computer Software, Correlation