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Mousikou, Petroula; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Ktori, Maria; Javourey-Drevet, Ludivine; Crepaldi, Davide; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Grainger, Jonathan; Schroeder, Sascha – Developmental Science, 2020
The present study investigated whether morphological processing in reading is influenced by the orthographic consistency of a language or its morphological complexity. Developing readers in Grade 3 and skilled adult readers participated in a reading aloud task in four alphabetic orthographies (English, French, German, Italian), which differ in…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Reading Processes
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Lew-Williams, Casey; Pelucchi, Bruna; Saffran, Jenny R. – Developmental Science, 2011
Infants are adept at tracking statistical regularities to identify word boundaries in pause-free speech. However, researchers have questioned the relevance of statistical learning mechanisms to language acquisition, since previous studies have used simplified artificial languages that ignore the variability of real language input. The experiments…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, English, Italian