Ian R. Mundy|Julia M. Carroll
Speech prosody and developmental dyslexia: Reduced phonological awareness in the context of intact phonological representations
University of Warwick|University of Warwick
recent research indicates awareness rhythmic patterns present spoken language ie prosody may important relatively overlooked predictor reading ability two studies investigated prosodic processing abilities skilled adult readers adults developmental dyslexia participants dyslexia showed reduced awareness lexical metrical stress skills found significantly associated predictive phonological decoding ability contrast individuals showed normal patterns stress based priming magnitudes similar controls resultssuggesting reduced phonological awareness context intact phonological representationsare consistent recent findings reported domain phonemic processing implications phonological deficit theory dyslexia discussed