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Direct linkWeekes, Brendan S.; Hamilton, Stephen; Oakhill, Jane V.; Holliday, Robyn E. – Cognition, 2008
Children with reading comprehension difficulties display impaired performance on semantic processing tasks. These impairments are assumed to reflect weaker knowledge about abstract semantic associations between words in poor comprehenders [Nation, K., & Snowling, M. (1999). Developmental differences in sensitivity to semantic relations among good…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Memory, Reading Difficulties
Ferretti, Todd R.; Singer, Murray; Patterson, Courtney – Cognition, 2008
We examined how verb factivity influences the ability of readers to detect and resolve the mismatch of receiving false referents in relation to true referents in discourse contexts. Factive verbs (e.g., know), but not nonfactive verbs (believe), entail the truth of their complements. Recent research by Singer [Singer, M. (2006). Verification of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
