NDLI: Lexical prosody as an aspect of oral reading fluency

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Author	Schwanenflugel, Paula J. Benjamin, Rebekah George
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The purpose of the study was to determine whether the lexical compounding, suffixation, and part of speech aspects of lexical prosody rendered while reading text aloud are predictive of children’s developing oral reading fluency and reading comprehension skills. Ninety-four third grade children were recorded while reading aloud a grade-level passage targeting lexical prosody contrasts related to suffixation, compounding, and part of speech. Children also completed assessments on reading fluency, word reading efficiency, and reading comprehension skills. Prosodic measurements of pitch and amplitude for each syllable of the targeted words, and spoken head word length in ms for targeted compound words, were carried out. Spectrographic analyses indicated that children generally displayed appropriate prosody for each lexical prosody contrast examined. The extent to which children made these prosodic distinctions between syllables was related to their reading fluency and comprehension skills. The study finds that, in the oral reading of connected texts, children’s use of lexical prosody is an aspect of general reading prosody that is predictive of reading fluency.
Starting Page	143
Ending Page	162
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09224777
Journal	Reading and Writing
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730905
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-06-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Reading prosody Reading fluency Lexical prosody Oral reading Language and Literature Psycholinguistics Education Neurology Literacy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Speech and Hearing Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Linguistics and Language

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