Nivedita Mani|Falk Huettig
Word reading skill predicts anticipation of upcoming spoken language input: A study of children developing proficiency in reading
University of Göttingen|Radboud University Nijmegen|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
despite efficiency language users typically process spoken language growing body research finds substantial individual differences speed accuracy spoken language processing potentially attributable participants literacy skills background current study took look role word reading skill listeners anticipation upcoming spoken language input children cusp learning read reading skills affect predictive language processing children stage literacy acquisition susceptible effects reading skills spoken language processing tested 8yearolds prediction upcoming spoken language input eyetracking task although children like previous studies date successfully able anticipate upcoming spoken language input strong positive correlation childrens word reading skills pseudoword reading metaphonological awareness spoken word recognition skills prediction skills suggest findings compatible notion process learning orthographic representations reading acquisition sharpens preexisting lexical representations turn also supports anticipation upcoming spoken words