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Detecting stress patterns is related to children's performance on reading tasks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ-PALMA ,
MANUEL RAYA-GARCÍA  and
ALFONSO PALMA-REYES
NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ-PALMA*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Jaén
MANUEL RAYA-GARCÍA
Affiliation:
Universidad de Jaén
ALFONSO PALMA-REYES
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada
*
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Nicolás Gutiérrez-Palma, Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus las Lagunillas s/n, Edificio D2, 23071 Jaén, Spain. E-mail: ngpalma@ujaen.es
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Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between the ability to detect changes in prosody and reading performance in Spanish. Participants were children aged 6–8 years who completed tasks involving reading words, reading pseudowords, stressing pseudowords, and reproducing pseudoword stress patterns. Results showed that the capacity to reproduce pseudoword stress patterns accounted for a unique portion of the variance in text reading, after controlling for phonological awareness, phoneme sensitivity, and working memory. In addition, stress sensitivity predicted children's performance in stressing pseudowords. These results suggest that stress sensitivity may affect fluency in reading as well as word stress learning.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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