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Phonological sensitivity predicts reading performance and verbal working memory predicts word recognition in third grade children. However, syntactic processing fails to predict word recognition and reading comprehension. This supports the phonological limitation hypothesis. Little specificity exists between syntactic and word-level processing. Correlations between reading problems and deficits in syntactic awareness are epiphenomena of defects in phonological processing.
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This article examines a study conducted on a group of 7 year olds in which 26 poor readers were compared with 36 strong readers. The authors, exploring the relationship between speech perception and lexical information, maintain poor readers demonstrated less defined categorical perception in phoneme identification and category boundary, arguing lexicon may serve as a mechanism to resolve ambiguities in speech perception.
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This article examines the reading skills of normal and low achieving readers in Hong Kong. The authors, testing 94 Chinese children in grades first through sixth, maintain younger normal and poor readers made more semantic and visual errors, whereas older and normal achieving readers made more phonological errors, concluding phonological processing plays a significant role in Chinese reading skills.
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