Jeremy Law|Anneli Veispak|Jolijn Vanderauwera|Pol Ghesquière
Morphological awareness and visual processing of derivational morphology in high-functioning adults with dyslexia: An avenue to compensation?
KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven
abstract study examined processing derivational morphology association measures morphological awareness literacy outcomes 30 dutchspeaking highfunctioning dyslexics 30 controls matched age reading comprehension masked priming experiment conducted semantic overlap morphologically related pairs manipulated part lexical decision task measures morphological awareness assessed using specifically designed sentence completion task significant priming effects found group yet adults dyslexia found benefit morphological structure controls adults dyslexia found influenced form morphoorthographic meaning morphosemantic properties morphemes controls mainly influenced morphosemantic properties reports suggest morphological processing intact highfunctioning dyslexics strength compared controls matched reading comprehension age thus reports support morphological processing potential factor reading compensation adults dyslexia however adults dyslexia performed significantly worse controls morphological awareness measures