Effects of morphological Family Size for young readers

Dutch children, from the second and fourth grade of primary school, were each given a visual lexical decision test on 210 Dutch monomorphemic words. After removing words not recognized by a majority of the younger group, (lexical) decisions were analysed by mixed‐model regression methods to see whet...

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Published in:British journal of developmental psychology 2012-09, Vol.30 (3), p.432-445
Main Authors: Perdijk, Kors, Schreuder, Robert, Baayen, R. Harald, Verhoeven, Ludo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Child psychology
Children
Cognitive Processes
Computational Linguistics
Decision Making
Decision time
Developmental psychology
Elementary School Students
Family Characteristics
Family size
Female
Foreign Countries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Grade 2
Grade 4
Humans
Indo European Languages
Language Tests
Lexical decisions
Male
Morphology
Morphology (Languages)
Netherlands
Primary schools
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Reading
Reading Processes
Recognition (Psychology)
Regression (Statistics)
Regression analysis
Semantics
Vocabulary
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Summary:Dutch children, from the second and fourth grade of primary school, were each given a visual lexical decision test on 210 Dutch monomorphemic words. After removing words not recognized by a majority of the younger group, (lexical) decisions were analysed by mixed‐model regression methods to see whether morphological Family Size influenced decision times over and above several other covariates. The effect of morphological Family Size on decision time was mixed: larger families led to significantly faster decision times for the second graders but not for the fourth graders. Since facilitative effects on decision times had been found for adults, we offer a developmental account to explain the absence of an effect of Family Size on decision times for fourth graders.
ISSN:0261-510X
2044-835X
DOI:10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02053.x