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Quemart, Pauline; Casalis, Severine; Duncan, Lynne G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
We examined whether French third- and fifth-grade children rely on morphemes when recognizing words and whether this reliance depends on word familiarity. We manipulated the presence of bases and suffixes in words and pseudowords to compare their contribution in a lexical decision task. Both bases and suffixes facilitated word reading accuracy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 5
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Duncan, Lynne G.; Casalis, Severine; Cole, Pascale – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
This cross-linguistic comparison of metalinguistic development in French and English examines early ability to manipulate derivational suffixes in oral language games as a function of chronological age, receptive vocabulary, and year of schooling. Data from judgment and production tasks are presented for children aged between 5 and 8 years in…
Descriptors: Age, Metalinguistics, Morphology (Languages), Oral Language