Andrew Holliman|Gareth J. Williams|Ian R. Mundy|Clare Wood|L. Gary Hart|Sam Waldron
Beginning to disentangle the prosody-literacy relationship: a multi-component measure of prosodic sensitivity
Coventry University|Nottingham Trent University|Coventry University|Coventry University|Coventry University|Coventry University
growing number studies suggest sensitivity rhythmic patterning speech prosody implicated successful reading acquisition however recent evidence suggests prosody unitary construct different components prosody stress intonation timing operating different linguistic levels word phrase sentence may related reading development different ways sixtytwo five sevenyearold englishspeaking children completed newly developed multicomponent measure designed assess several different aspects prosodic sensitivity single easilyadministered task new measure found sensitive individual differences prosodic sensitivity participants overall scores significantly correlated measures vocabulary phonological awareness phonological decoding text reading accuracy reading comprehension exploratory factor analysis suggested multicomponent measure prosodic sensitivity distinguished processing stress intonation timing task also distinguished wordlevel sentencelevel sensitivity stress information findings add growing literature demonstrating relationship prosodic sensitivity reading represent first step towards disentangling prosody developing sophisticated understanding role early reading development