Oliveira BSFD, Justi FRDR. Morphological priming development in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children.
PSICOLOGIA-REFLEXAO E CRITICA 2017;
30:4. [PMID:
32026057 PMCID:
PMC6967254 DOI:
10.1186/s41155-017-0058-8]
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Abstract
Many studies have shown that, while reading, the brain works a sort of
decomposing process of words, reducing them to its morphemes. Moreover, many studies
have shown that morphological awareness, which is the ability to reflect upon the
structure of words, may contribute to reading in Brazilian Portuguese. The present
study investigated morphological priming in children and evaluated the correlation
between morphological priming and morphological awareness scores. One hundred and
forty-one children took part in this research: 35 second graders, 33 third graders,
33 fourth graders, and 40 fifth graders. They performed a lexical decision task
(LDT) and morphological awareness task. Results indicate that as early as the second
grade, children show some degree of morphological priming effects. In addition,
children from the fifth grade presented morphological priming effects similar to
those of a skilled reader. No correlations between morphological awareness scores
and morphological priming effects were found.
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