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Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Grainger, Jonathan – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
A letter-search task was used to test the hypothesis that affixes are chunked during morphological processing and that such chunking might operate differently for prefixes and suffixes. Participants had to detect a letter target that was embedded either in a prefix or suffix (e.g., "R" in "propoint" or "filmure") or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Suffixes, Morphology (Languages)
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Kegel, Cornelia A. T.; Bus, Adriana G. – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Children showing poor executive functioning may not fully benefit from learning experiences at home and school and may lag behind in literacy skills. This hypothesis was tested in a sample of 276 kindergarten children. Executive functions and literacy skills were tested at about 61?months and again a year later. In line with earlier studies,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attribution Theory, Alphabets, Executive Function