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Gutiérrez-Palma, Nicolás; Shelton, Michael; Ramos-Álvarez, Manuel Miguel – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Previous research has shown that syllables are important units in visual word recognition in Spanish. If they are treated as real phonological units, then other related phonological features such as lexical stress (syllable prominence) may also play a role in this process. At times, lexical stress is the only difference between minimal…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Syllables, Suprasegmentals, Word Recognition
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Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta; Martínez-García, Cristina; Cuetos, Fernando; Suárez-Coalla, Paz – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: Prosodic reading is one of the steps needed to achieve reading fluency. It is already known that English children develop their reading prosody from the earliest grades of primary school, showing the greatest improvement between first and second grade, but there are no Spanish studies of the development of reading prosody in the first…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Grade 1
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Calet, Nuria; Gutiérrez-Palma, Nicolás; Defior, Sylvia – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
The importance of prosodic elements is recognised in most definitions of fluency. Although speed and accuracy have been typically considered the constituents of reading fluency, prosody is emerging as an additional component. The relevance of prosody in comprehension is increasingly recognised in the latest studies. The purpose of this research is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Reading Fluency
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Gutierrez-Palma, Nicolas; Reyes, Alfonso Palma – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
This paper investigates the relationship between ability to detect changes in prosody and reading performance in Spanish. Participants were children aged 7-8 years. Their tasks consisted of reading words, reading non-words, stressing non-words and reproducing sequences of two, three or four non-words by pressing the corresponding keys on the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills