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Reynvoet, Bert; De Smedt, Bert; Van den Bussche, Eva – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
The comparison distance effect (CDE), whereby discriminating between two numbers that are far apart is easier than discriminating between two numbers that are close, has been considered as an important indicator of how people represent magnitudes internally. However, the underlying mechanism of this CDE is still unclear. We tried to shed further…
Descriptors: Numbers, Language Processing, Grade 5, Grade 1
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Maionchi-Pino, Norbert; Magnan, Annie; Ecalle, Jean – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
This study investigates the syllable's role in the normal reading acquisition of French children at three grade levels (1st, 3rd, and 5th), using a modified version of Cole, Magnan, and Grainger's (1999) paradigm. We focused on the effects of syllable frequency and word frequency. The results suggest that from the first to third years of reading…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Grade 5