Year: 1979
Type: article
Abstract: Parsing sentences into meaningful phrases and clauses is an essential step in language comprehension, and parsing difficulty is a common reading problem.Prosody (intonation, stress, and rhythm) provides information about phrase and clause boundaries in spoken language which is not available in written language.This experiment tested whether prosodic information facilitates children's parsing of sentences.Above and below average readers in the fourth grade divided sentences into meaningful word groups.There were two presentation conditions.In the no-prosody condition, the sentences were presented in written form only, while in the prosody condition they were presented in both written and spoken form.The results suggest that below average readers have difficulty parsing sentences when prosodic information is not available, but are able to parse sentences about as well as the above average readers when prosody is available.
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: U.S. Public Health Service
OpenAlex ID: W2282620620