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White, Thomas G.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1989
Investigates whether it is worthwhile to spend time teaching children in the intermediate grades to derive the meaning of words through morphological analysis. Proposes a stage model of morphological analysis which supports morphological teaching at grade four and above. (RS)
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Language Research

Oliphant, Katrina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
This study investigated sensitivity to morphological, semantic, and syntactic cues to grammatical gender among 64 students of college-level Italian. Results showed sensitivity to cues in word-final phonemes, but low awareness of gender associations of derivational suffixes. Students had more difficulty dealing with multiple cues, particularly when…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grammar, Higher Education, Italian