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Effects of reading proficiency and of base and whole-word frequency on reading noun- and verb-derived words: An eye-tracking study in Italian primary…

2018

The aim of this study is to assess the role of readers’ proficiency and of the base-word distributional properties on eye-movement behavior. Sixty-two typically developing children, attending 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade, were asked to read derived words in a sentence context. Target words were nouns derived from noun bases (e.g., umorista, ‘humorist’), which in Italian are shared by few derived words, and nouns derived from verb bases (e.g., punizione, ‘punishment’), which are shared by about 50 different inflected forms and several derived words. Data shows that base and word frequency affected first-fixation duration for nouns derived from noun bases, but in an opposite way: base frequency ha…

Eye movementnoun-derived nounslcsh:BF1-990VerbM-PSI/02 - PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineMorphemeDerived wordReading proficiencyM-PSI/04 - PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO E PSICOLOGIA DELL'EDUCAZIONENounReading acquisitionPsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesderived wordsWord frequencyGeneral PsychologyWord morphologyOriginal Research05 social sciencesverb-derived nounseye-movementsFixation (psychology)Noun-derived noungrammatical categoryLinguisticsWord lists by frequencyeye movementslcsh:PsychologySettore M-PSI/04 - PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO E PSICOLOGIA DELL'EDUCAZIONEVerb-derived nounreading acquisition word morphology eye-movements lexical processing sentence readingEye trackingSuffixPsychologyM-PSI/01 - PSICOLOGIA GENERALE030217 neurology & neurosurgerySentence
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