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Prosodic Awareness and Children's Multisyllabic Word Reading
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Holliman, Andrew J.; Mundy, Ian R.; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Wood, Clare; Bird, Chelsea – Educational Psychology, 2017
Prosodic awareness (the rhythmic patterning of speech) accounts for unique variance in reading development. However, studies have thus far focused on early readers and utilised literacy measures which fail to distinguish between monosyllabic and multisyllabic words. The current study investigated the factors that are specifically associated with…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Intonation, Phonemic Awareness, Short Term Memory
Modeling the Relationship between Prosodic Sensitivity and Early Literacy
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Holliman, Andrew; Critten, Sarah; Lawrence, Tony; Harrison, Emily; Wood, Clare; Hughes, David – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
A growing literature has demonstrated that prosodic sensitivity is related to early literacy development; however, the precise nature of this relationship remains unclear. It has been speculated in recent theoretical models that the observed relationship between prosodic sensitivity and early literacy might be partially mediated by children's…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Suprasegmentals, Models, Young Children