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This chapter discusses the productive aspect of morphological processing and the effect on reading proficiency in older children. The report summarizes the results of three main experiments using the semantic priming procedure plus an initial repetition priming experiment, all using reaction time measures, to explore ten- to twelve-year old ‘poor’ readers’ sensitivity to, and knowledge of, derivational morphology. There is some evidence from the accurate and rapid vocal production of complex derived or base words that the depth of derivational morphology and the converse of segmentation to base forms play a role in reading performance in these children.
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Leong, C.K., Parkinson, M.E. (1995). Processing of English Morphological Structure by Poor Readers. In: Leong, C.K., Joshi, R.M. (eds) Developmental and Acquired Dyslexia. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1241-5_15
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