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Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta; Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Cuetos, Fernando – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Reading prosody is considered one of the essential markers of reading fluency, alongside accuracy and speed. The aim of our study was to investigate how development of reading prosody in Spanish children varies with sentence type and length. We compared primary school children from the third and fifth grades with an adult sample. Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Elementary School Students
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D'Odorico, Laura; Jacob, Valentina – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: Children who have reached the age of 2 years without having acquired a 50-word vocabulary and/or who use no word combinations are referred to in the literature as "Late Talkers". Research has not yet identified the factors that cause slow development of expressive language; in particular, relatively little research has been carried out…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Delayed Speech, Linguistic Input, Mothers