Morphological priming development in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children.
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SUBMITTER: Oliveira BSF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6967254 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
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Morphological priming development in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children.
Oliveira Bruno Stefani Ferreira de BSF Justi Francis Ricardo Dos Reis FRDR
Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS 20170220 1
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 chil ...[more]
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