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Sachs, Alyssa Nicole Yuriko; language impairments – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: The most common cause of aphasia is a left middle cerebral artery stroke affecting the left perisylvian region of the brain. The perisylvian region is critical for supporting phonological processing, and damage to this region results in difficulty with retrieving and manipulating speech sounds. The impact of weakened phonology has been…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurological Impairments, Phonology, Grammar
Edward J. Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Psycholinguistic research aims to understand how people make sense of language in their everyday lives. However, most of this research studies language under experimental conditions in which people are instructed to specifically monitor (and indicate) when there is a breakdown in their understanding. Moreover, there is an assumption that people…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Psycholinguistics, Reading Research
Sandy Abu El Adas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Previous studies show that linguistic information and talker information interact during processing. Familiarity with a language facilitates talker processing, and familiarity with a talker's voice facilitates linguistic processing. To probe the factors involved in talker processing, researchers examined how individual differences in reading…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Phonology
Antoinette C. Halliday – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between participating in an online software application focused on phonological processing and working memory and outcomes on foundational reading assessment measures. The online software application utilized was the Sound Reading Program. Students began the intervention working in…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Phonology, Language Processing, Educational Technology
Jin Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reading is an essential skill for daily life and academic success. According to the connectionist model of reading, word recognition involves orthographic, phonological, and semantic processing, as well as the interactions among them. Language skill such as phonological processing, develops earlier than reading acquisition, and thus likely serves…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Phonemes
Grimm, Ryan Ponce – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The Simple View of Reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) has a longstanding history as a model of reading comprehension, but it has mostly been applied to native English speakers. The SVR posits reading comprehension is a function of the interaction between word-level reading skills and oral language skills. It has been…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Oral Language, Language Skills