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Word frequency modulates morpheme-based reading in poor and skilled Italian readers

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Author	Marcolini, Stefania Traficante, Daniela Zoccolotti, Pierluigi Burani, Cristina
Copyright Year	2011
Description	A previous study reported that, similar to young and adult skilled readers, Italian developmental dyslexics read pseudowords made up of a root and a derivational suffix faster and more accurately than simple pseudowords. Unlike skilled readers, only dyslexic and reading-matched younger children benefited from morphological structure in reading words aloud. In this study, we show that word frequency affects the probability of morpheme-based reading, interacting with reading ability. Young skilled readers named low- but not high-frequency morphologically complex words faster than simple words. By contrast, the advantage for morphologically complex words was present in poor readers irrespective of word frequency. Adult readers showed no facilitating effect of morphological structure. These results indicate that young readers use reading units (morphemes) that are larger than the single-grapheme grain size. It is argued that morpheme-based reading is important for obtaining reading fluency (rather than accuracy) in transparent orthographies and is useful particularly in children with limited reading ability who do not fully master whole-word processing.
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Ending Page	532
Page Count	20
Starting Page	513
ISSN	01427164
e-ISSN	14691817
DOI	10.1017/s0142716411000191
Journal	Applied Psycholinguistics
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	32
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2011-07-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Psycholinguistics Experimental Psychology Word Frequency Native Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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