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Gross, Jennifer; Winegard, Bo; Plotkowski, Andrea R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Spoken English has a stress-alternating rhythm that is not marked in its orthography. In two experiments, the authors evaluated whether stylistic alterations to print that marked stress pulses fostered the rendering of rhythm (experiment 1) and stress (experiment 2) during silent reading. In experiment 1, silent readers rated the helpfulness of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Poetry, Prediction, Linguistic Theory
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Gross, Jennifer; Millett, Amanda L.; Bartek, Brian; Bredell, Kyle Hampton; Winegard, Bo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
English speakers and expressive readers emphasize new content in an ongoing discourse. Do silent readers emphasize new content in their inner voice? Because the inner voice cannot be directly observed, we borrowed the cap-emphasis technique (e.g., "toMAYto") from the pronunciation guides of dictionaries to elicit prosodic emphasis.…
Descriptors: Intonation, Sustained Silent Reading, Suprasegmentals, Pronunciation