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Majorano, Marinella; Lavelli, Manuela – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: The literature on input addressed to children with specific language impairment (SLI) has shown contrasting results on the role that parents assume during conversational interactions. Some studies have shown that parents compensate for the child's linguistic limitations. In contrast, other studies have indicated that mothers are…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Mothers, Parent Role
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Verdonschot, Rinus G.; La Heij, Wido; Schiller, Niels O. – Cognition, 2010
The process of reading aloud bare nouns in alphabetic languages is immune to semantic context effects from pictures. This is accounted for by assuming that words in alphabetic languages can be read aloud relatively fast through a sub-lexical grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) route or by a direct route from orthography to word form. We examined…
Descriptors: Semantics, Scripts, Semiotics, Reading Aloud to Others
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Walczyk, Jeffrey J.; Wei, Min; Grifith-Ross, Diana A.; Goubert, Sarah E.; Cooper, Alison L.; Zha, Peijia – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
An account was tested of the development of the interplay between automatic processes and cognitive resources in reading. According to compensatory-encoding theory, with advancing skill, readers increasingly keep automatic processes from faltering and provide timely, accurate data to working memory by pausing, looking back, rereading, and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Laboratory Schools, Semantics, Memory