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Alexandra M. Ryken; Lesly Wade-Woolley; S. Hélène Deacon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
There is growing theoretical and empirical consensus for a role of awareness of suprasegmental phonology, also known as prosody, or the rhythmic elements of speech, in reading comprehension. Here we explore a potential mechanism by which this relation functions: awareness of how punctuation reflects prosody, for instance appreciating that a period…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Cross-linguistic studies have reported that prosodic pattern awareness (e.g., lexical stress and lexical tone) is more important to reading acquisition than phonological awareness. However, few longitudinal studies have been conducted to explore the relations between these variables. This study examined preschoolers' pitch discrimination, prosodic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Mandarin Chinese, Intonation
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Godde, Erika; Bosse, Marie-Line; Bailly, Gérard – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present work reviews the current knowledge of the development of reading prosody, or reading aloud with expression, in young children. Prosody comprises the variables of timing, phrasing, emphasis and intonation that speakers use to convey meaning. We detail the subjective rating scales proposed as a means of assessing performance in young…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Suprasegmentals, Oral Reading, Young Children
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Critten, Sarah; Holliman, Andrew J.; Hughes, David J.; Wood, Clare; Cunnane, Helen; Pillinger, Claire; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Prosodic sensitivity--the rhythmic patterning of speech--is theorized to influence reading and spelling via vocabulary knowledge, phonological, and morphological awareness. Previously this conceptual model has been evidenced with children who can already read, however as orthographic knowledge can be used to complete phonological awareness tasks…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Intonation, Spelling, Suprasegmentals
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Chan, Jessica S.; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Heggie, Lindsay; Kirby, John R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We examined the unique contributions of prosodic awareness and morphological awareness to school-aged children's word reading and reading comprehension. A total of 110 elementary-age children from Grades 4 and 5 participated in the current study. To measure prosodic awareness, children were asked to listen to and reflect on the stress patterns of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Individual Differences, Reading Comprehension
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Berg, Kristian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
What determines consonant doubling in English? This question is pursued by using a large lexical database to establish systematic correlations between spelling, phonology and morphology. The main insights are: Consonant doubling is most regular at morpheme boundaries. It can be described in graphemic terms alone, i.e. without reference to…
Descriptors: English, Phonemes, Correlation, Morphology (Languages)
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Westmoreland, Matthew R.; Benjamin, Rebekah George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The purposes of the study were to determine whether third grade children mark linguistic focus features in their reading prosody and whether strong marking of these linguistic focus features might comprise an aspect of expressive reading typical of skilled, fluent reading. Children read a passage targeting information focusing aspects of prosody…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Fluency, Suprasegmentals, Intonation