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Nobre, Alexandre de Pontes; de Salles, Jerusa Fumagalli – Educational Psychology, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate relations between lexical-semantic processing and two components of reading: visual word recognition and reading comprehension. Sixty-eight children from private schools in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 7 to 12 years, were evaluated. Reading was assessed with a word/nonword reading task and a reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Priming, Word Recognition
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Correa, Leticia M. Sicuro; de A. Almeida, Diogo A.; Porto, Renata Sobrino – Brain and Language, 2004
This study aims at verifying whether Portuguese gender-inflected nouns and adjectives are represented as full forms as suggested by Spanish data (Dominguez, Cuetos, & Segui, 1999). A series of lexical decision experiments is reported. Grammatical gender, frequency dominance, and grammatical category are manipulated and cumulative frequency is…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Portuguese