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Schröter, Pauline; Schroeder, Sascha – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Investigating the impact of linguistic characteristics on visual word recognition in children, we studied whether differences in native (L1) and second language (L2) processing already emerge at the beginning of reading development. German elementary school students in grades 2 to 6 completed a battery of standardized tests and a lexical decision…
Descriptors: German, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Word Recognition
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Hawelka, Stefan; Schuster, Sarah; Gagl, Benjamin; Hutzler, Florian – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2013
The study assessed the eye movements of 60 adult German readers during silent reading of target words, consisting of two and three syllables, embedded in sentences. The first objective was to assess whether the inhibitory effect of first syllable frequency, which was up to now primarily shown for isolated words, generalises to natural reading. The…
Descriptors: Syllables, Word Frequency, Orthographic Symbols, Eye Movements