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Weber, Rose-Marie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
This paper exposes how function words and their prosodic features play a part in learning and teaching to read in the early years. It sketches the place that function words have in the grammar of English and describes their phonological features, especially their weak stress and its role in the prosodic quality of sentences. It considers the ways…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Reading Fluency