Linguistic rhythm and literacy / / edited by Jenny Thomson, Linda Jarmulowicz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798013003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Philadelphia] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Collana: Trends in Language Acquisition Research, , 1569-0644 ; ; Volume 17
• Disciplina: 414/.6
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Rhythm; Tempo (Phonetics); Language acquisition; Literacy; Psycholinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Overview of chapters; Concluding Remarks; References; Section I. Prosodic Sensitivity Issues; The Contributions of Prosodic and Phonological Awareness to Reading; Introduction; Phonological awareness; Prosody and prosodic awareness; Segmental and suprasegmental phonology; Search Strategy; Included Articles; Reading Measures; Phonological awareness measures; Prosody measures; References; Suprasegmental Phonology and Early Reading Development; ResultsExperiment 2: A multi-component measure of suprasegmental phonology and its relationship with IQ, phonological awareness and decoding, passage reading accuracy, and reading comprehension ; Method; Results; General discussion of Experiment 1 and 2; Methodological limitations; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Which Prosodic Skills are Related to Reading Ability in Adulthood?; Introduction; Prosody, phoneme awareness, and reading development; Prosody and skilled reading; Stress and lexical activation; ; Orthographic cues to stress assignment; Which prosodic skills are related to reading impairment in adulthood?Prosody and dyslexia in adulthood: Impaired performance; Rise-time; Stress identification/discrimination; Stress-context matching; Template matching; Metalinguistic skills; Prosody and dyslexia in adulthood: Intact performance; Stress primsing; Stress decoding; Stress perception; Prosody and the nature of dyslexia; Summary and future directions; References; Towards a Speech Rhythm-Based Reading Intervention; Segmental phonological awareness; The phonological deficit hypothesis; Phonic interventions; The perspective from developmental dyslexia: Some background