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The Relationships among Verbal Short-Term Memory, Phonological Awareness, and New Word Learning: Evidence from Typical Development and Down Syndrome
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Jarrold, Christopher; Thorn, Annabel S. C.; Stephens, Emma – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
This study examined the correlates of new word learning in a sample of 64 typically developing children between 5 and 8 years of age and a group of 22 teenagers and young adults with Down syndrome. Verbal short-term memory and phonological awareness skills were assessed to determine whether learning new words involved accurately representing…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Down Syndrome, Young Adults, Short Term Memory
The Developmental Turnpoint of Orthographic Consistency Effects in Speech Recognition
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Ventura, Paulo; Kolinsky, Regine; Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
The influence of orthography on children's online auditory word recognition was studied from the end of Grade 4 to the end of Grade 9 by examining the orthographic consistency effect in auditory lexical decision. Fourth-graders showed evidence of a widespread influence of orthography in their spoken word recognition system; words with rimes that…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Grade 4, Grade 9, Influences
Eye Movements during Spoken Word Recognition in Russian Children
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Sekerina, Irina A.; Brooks, Patricia J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
This study explores incremental processing in spoken word recognition in Russian 5- and 6-year-olds and adults using free-viewing eye-tracking. Participants viewed scenes containing pictures of four familiar objects and clicked on a target embedded in a spoken instruction. In the cohort condition, two object names shared identical three-phoneme…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Word Recognition, Eye Movements, Oral Language
The Role of Phonological Recoding in Orthographic Learning
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Kyte, Christiane S.; Johnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The objective of this research was to explore whether orthographic learning occurs as a result of phonological recoding, as expected from the self-teaching hypothesis. The participants were 32 fourth- and fifth-graders (mean age = 10 years 0 months, SD = 7 months) who performed lexical decisions for monosyllabic real words and pseudowords under…
Descriptors: Phonology, Grade 4, Grade 5, Word Recognition
Automatic Lexical Access in Children: New Evidence from Masked Identity-Priming.
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Pratarelli, Marc E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Skills in the visual encoding of words were tested by comparing the performances of fourth-grade children with those of adults. In each experiment, adults responded more rapidly to the stimuli than did children. Using a masking procedure, the study determined that the variance in response times was caused by levels of motor skill development…
Descriptors: Children, Context Clues, Encoding (Psychology), Language Processing
The Development of Complex Sentence Processing Strategies.
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Townsend, David J.; Ravelo, Norma – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Seeks to determine whether young children use different strategies than do adults in clausal processing. Subjects were 20 three year olds, 30 four year olds, 20 five year olds, and 30 undergraduate students. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Higher Education, Language Processing
The Relationships between Phonological Sensitivity, Syntactic Processing, and Verbal Working Memory in the Reading Performance of Third-Grade Children.
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Gottardo, Alexandra; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Assessed third-graders' phonological sensitivity, working memory, syntactic processing, word recognition, pseudoword reading, and reading comprehension. Found that phonological sensitivity was a strong predictor of reading performance after working memory and syntactic processing had been partialled out. Syntactic processing failed to predict word…
Descriptors: Children, Grade 3, Language Processing, Memory