When is a corner like corn? Morpho-orthographic segmenting skills in children who struggle with reading
| dc.contributor.author | Rosenberg, Lindsay | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Soderstrom, Melanie (Psychology) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Russell, Kevin (Linguistics) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Kruk, Richard (Psychology) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-25T13:54:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-25T13:54:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-29 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2018-09-25T13:52:32Z | en |
| dc.degree.discipline | Psychology | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Morphological awareness is the ability to consider and manipulate the smallest units of meaning in language. To measure it, a masked priming lexical decision task was used, where prime words varied, from morphologically related to the target (teacher-TEACH), to pseudo-suffixed relationships (corner-CORN). A dual-route theory of orthographic processing suggests that these words are processed differently; The former through coarse-grained processing, where the word is processed at once, and the latter through fine-grained, where each letter and its location is processed. For good readers in grade 6, letter order and suffix type modulated priming effects. For grade 6 poor readers and grade 2 readers, priming was not modulated by suffix type. For orthographic processing, grade 6 readers used fine-grained processing, whereas grade 2 readers used coarse-grained processing. This suggests that reading exposure is the driving factor in the type of orthographic processing used in word recognition for good and poor readers. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2018 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33465 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reading | en_US |
| dc.subject | Literacy development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Morphological awareness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Morpho-orthographic segmentation | en_US |
| dc.title | When is a corner like corn? Morpho-orthographic segmenting skills in children who struggle with reading | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |