Orthographic Transparency Enhances Morphological Segmentation in Children Reading Hebrew Words.

ABSTRACT: Morphological processing of derived words develops simultaneously with reading acquisition. However, the reader's engagement in morphological segmentation may depend on the language morphological richness and orthographic transparency, and the readers' reading skills. The current study tested the common idea that morphological segmentation is enhanced in non-transparent orthographies to compensate for the absence of phonological information. Hebrew's rich morphology and the dual version of the Hebrew script (with and without diacritic marks) provides an opportunity to study the interaction of orthographic transparency and morphological segmentation on the development of reading skills in a within-language design. Hebrew speaking 2nd (N = 27) and 5th (N = 29) grade children read aloud 96 no

SUBMITTER: Haddad L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5780401 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature