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Phrase-Reading Mediates between Words and Syntax in Struggling Adolescent Readers
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Nomvete, Patsy; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2020
The components involved in adolescent reading are complex and not clearly understood in struggling readers. Phrase reading, a language skill associated with prosodic understanding of syntactic phrases, has received little attention. We studied 70 adolescent readers including delayed readers to answer the following questions: (a) Do phrase-reading…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Reading Processes, Suprasegmentals, Reading Difficulties
Implicit Prosody and Parsing in Silent Reading
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Webman-Shafran, Ronit – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: The current study explored the effect of implicit prosody on syntactic parsing in the silent reading of an ambiguous double prepositional phrase (PP) construction in Hebrew by employing the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis test (Fodor, 2002). Method: The parsing preferences of the construction in silent reading were tested and compared to…
Descriptors: Intonation, Sustained Silent Reading, Suprasegmentals, Syntax
The Effect of Non-Sentential Context Prosody on Homographs' Lexical Activation in Persian
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Feizabadi, Parvin Sadat; Bijankhan, Mahmood – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
This study examines the effect of non-sentential context prosody pattern on lexical activation in Persian. For this purpose a questionnaire including target and non-target words is used. The target words are homographs with two possible stress patterns belonging to different syntactic categories. Participants are asked to read out the words aloud…
Descriptors: Language Research, Indo European Languages, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Processing Focus Structure and Implicit Prosody during Reading: Differential ERP Effects
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Stolterfoht, Britta; Friederici, Angela D.; Alter, Kai; Steube, Anita – Cognition, 2007
Several recent studies have shown that focus structural representations influence syntactic processing during reading, while other studies have shown that implicit prosody plays an important role in the understanding of written language. Up until now, the relationship between these two processes has been mostly disregarded. The present study…
Descriptors: Written Language, Brain, Reading Processes, Suprasegmentals
Lexical and Syntactic Predictors of the Distribution of Pause Time in Reading
Brown, Eric; Miron, Murray S. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Research, Language Rhythm
Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and the Teaching of Reading: An Annotated Bibliography.
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Goodman, Yetta M., Comp.; Goodman, Kenneth S., Comp. – 1971
The second edition of this annotated bibliography on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the teaching of reading contains 40 percent more publications than the earlier edition, which covered works through 1967. The citations include a full range of points of view, topics, and authors' special fields and ask the readers to read a number of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
Les actes des journees de linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (5th, 1991).
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Laberge, Diane, Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and…
Descriptors: Basque, Black Dialects, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Consonants