Two experiments investigated the development of two aspects related to stress assignment in reading. First, we tested whether the role of distributional knowledge concerning stress changes with the development of the reading system; second, we tested whether stress information is computed independently of phonemic information since the first stages of reading acquisition. We ran two identical experiments in Italian, one with children of two age levels (second and fourth grades) and one with adults. Results showed that older children behave similarly to adults, but younger children do not. Differently from the advanced readers, younger children use more general distributional knowledge about stress and are not able to compute stress information apart from phonemes. Taken together, our results suggest that the stress subsystem, and in particular the mechanisms working at the level of the phonological buffer are not fully developed during the first stages of reading.

Sulpizio, S., Boureux, M., Burani, C., Deguchi, C., Colombo, L. (2012). Stress assignment in the development of reading aloud: Nonword priming effects on Italian children. In Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012 (pp.2369-2374). USA : Cognitive Science Society.

Stress assignment in the development of reading aloud: Nonword priming effects on Italian children

Sulpizio, S;
2012

Abstract

Two experiments investigated the development of two aspects related to stress assignment in reading. First, we tested whether the role of distributional knowledge concerning stress changes with the development of the reading system; second, we tested whether stress information is computed independently of phonemic information since the first stages of reading acquisition. We ran two identical experiments in Italian, one with children of two age levels (second and fourth grades) and one with adults. Results showed that older children behave similarly to adults, but younger children do not. Differently from the advanced readers, younger children use more general distributional knowledge about stress and are not able to compute stress information apart from phonemes. Taken together, our results suggest that the stress subsystem, and in particular the mechanisms working at the level of the phonological buffer are not fully developed during the first stages of reading.
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lexical stress; pathway priming; reading development; stress neighborhood;
English
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World, CogSci 2012 - 1 August 2012 through 4 August 2012
2012
Miyake, N; Peebles, D; Cooper, RP
Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012
9780976831884
2012
2369
2374
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Sulpizio, S., Boureux, M., Burani, C., Deguchi, C., Colombo, L. (2012). Stress assignment in the development of reading aloud: Nonword priming effects on Italian children. In Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012 (pp.2369-2374). USA : Cognitive Science Society.
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