Attention factors mediating syntactic deficiency in reading-disabled children

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Syntactic congruence of the context facilitates both good readers and reading-disabled children in identifying target words. However, syntactic incongruence has only smaller inhibitive effect on word identification in reading-disabled children than in good readers. Congruent and incongruent sentences presented in separate blocks reduce inhibition in good readers, but have little effect on disabled children. This indicates that unlike good readers, reading-disabled children anticipate less for syntactically coherent categories due to their syntactic deficiency.

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Syntactic and semantic factors in processing gender agreement in Hebrew: evidence from ERPs and eye movements

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The importance of gender agreement in Hebrew to semantic understanding is illustrated by a test of subjects asked to read passages where gender agreement between the subject and the predicate were manipulated. Reading time slowed significantly, especially on the first read-through as indicated by measurement of rapid eye movement.

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Phonological constraints on reading: evidence from the Obligatory Contour Principle

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The Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) is discussed in relation to phonological constraints in reading in Hebrew. Topics include the nature of OCP effects, OCP effects in Hebrew root structure, and the effect on reading performance.

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