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In the present study, we test whether, during reflexive pronoun resolution, structural cues guide both the language processing system and its underlying memory-based mechanisms or whether the latter might be influenced by non-structural cues as well. Specifically, we explore the inhibitory effects caused by similarity-based interference, which may...
This study reports on several specific neurocognitive processes and eye-tracking predictors of reading outcomes for a sample of children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) and At-tention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – inattentive subtype (ADHD-I) compared to typical readers. Participants included 19 typical readers, 21 children diagnosed with ADHD-...
The IDEST database contains 250 short texts each in one of six original languages (Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish) and their English translations. The texts are 900-1100 characters long narratives written from the first-person perspective. The database contains ratings for valence, arousal, and comprehensibility of the texts...
We introduce a database (IDEST) of 250 short stories rated for valence, arousal, and comprehensibility in two languages. The texts, with a narrative structure telling a story in the first person and controlled for length, were originally written in six different languages (Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish), and rated for ar...
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This study aimed to investigate the neuropsycholinguistic functioning of children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – inattentive subtype (ADHD-I) in a reading task. The psycholinguistic profile of both groups was assessed using a battery of neuropsychological and linguistic tests and compared to typical...
In this study we tested, in EP and in BP, complement clauses with a null or an overt pronoun in subject position that is forced by number agreement to retrieve an antecedent within a complex subject NP in the main clause. With an eye-tracking while reading paradigm, we analysed the impact of structural position on pronoun resolution, investigating...
Language is a complex system formed by complex modules that host several complex domains. The complexity of one of these modules, the lexicon, must be evaluated in two distinct ways: firstly, by calculating the complexity index of each lexical unit, which will then allow the computation of the word complexity; and secondly, by evaluating the comple...
We may find several studies claiming that morphological structure plays an important role in word processing. In this paper, supported by the observation of written derived words processing, we intend to demonstrate that complex words display different degrees of complexity, depending on morphological and semantic features. We’ve performed two expe...
Many studies emphasize the role of morphological structure in the access to lexical representations. In this paper we intend to demonstrate that complex words are not all equally complex. Morphological complexity varies according to the morphosemantic word structure. We will report the results of a lexical decision task that made use of 3 condition...
Using a masked priming paradigm we investigated the effect of a derived word prime on the recognition of a target in 3 conditions: Morphological Related Words, Ortographically Overlap Words and Unrelated Words. We tested Portuguese children in the 4th grade (N=27) and college students (N=36), using a lexical decision task. The subjects saw the rime...
This study aims to connect data from ocular movements and reading aloud to the syntactic and discursive properties of texts, in order to understand integrative cognitive processes during reading for understanding. Assuming that in reading aloud there is a close interaction between syntax structure and speech prosody, we collected eyetracking and sp...
Analysis of children’s productions of oral narratives is a highly effective research tool that allows examiners to document children’s productive vocabulary and grammar (using microstructural analyses) as well as children’s text level narrative organization skills (using macrostructural analyses). In this study we used the Narrative Scoring Scheme...
Lexical processing with focus on morphological word structure is a relatively unexplored domain in reading research, namely in European Portuguese. Our main goal is to understand how morphological constituents are represented in the speakers’ internal lexicon, and how these representations are applied in visual word recognition (VWR), prior to lexi...
Reading processes have been studied in a psycho and neurolinguistic perspective and a lot is known about what is
involved (Perfetti, 1999). Interrelated processes and behaviors in reading have been separately studied in silent reading
and reading aloud. The data dependent on reading modality inform us in different ways about online linguistic
proce...
Cognitive mechanisms sustaining reading, viewing and working memory are mostly independently examined. In this study, we investigate their interaction in a visual-world priming task. Participants first read relative clauses (RC) morphologically disambiguated for high-(to NP1, HA) or low-attachment (to NP2, LA) (e.g., The helper|helpers of the baker...
This study aims to connect data from ocular movements and reading aloud to the syntactic and discursive properties of texts, in order to understand integrative cognitive processes during reading for understanding. Assuming that in reading aloud there is a close interaction between syntax structure and speech prosody, we collected eyetracking and sp...
Resumo – Retomaremos o trabalho de Luegi (2006) para descrever e comentar a técnica de registo dos comportamentos oculares (eye-tracking) como uma das várias metodologias que permitem estudar os mecanismos cognitivos envolvidos no processamento da linguagem. Neste artigo, descrevemos as principais características dos comportamentos oculares durante...
Using a masked priming paradigm we investigated the effect of a derived word prime on the recognition of a target in 3 conditions: Morphological Related Words, Ortographically Overlap Words and Unrelated Words. We tested Portuguese children in the 4th grade (N=27) and college students (N=36), using a lexical decision task. The subjects saw the rime...
Neste estudo, analisamos o processamento e a interpretação de sujeitos nulos e plenos em PE e em PB na retoma de antecedentes que ocupam diferentes posições estruturais. Resultados: função sintática e posição estrutural influenciam a resolução da correferência em PE; em PB, o nulo é mais facilmente interpretado como correferente com o Sujeito ou co...
A área do processamento morfofonológico é fértil em debates sobre o papel da informação morfológica no processamento da palavra, quer na fase precoce do seu reconhecimento, quer em fases ulteriores de acesso ao significado. Muitos estudos em psicolinguística e neuropsicologia cognitiva enfatizam o papel da estrutura morfológica no acesso às represe...
Morpho-phonological processing is a controversial domain, fertile in passionate debates on the role of morphological information during visual word recognition. Many studies in psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology emphasize the role of morphological structure for access to lexical representations. Although there is a considerable degree...
Assessments of Reading Comprehension: Different Measures, Different Explanatory Variables and Achievement Abstract This study investigates the reading achievement of 69 Portuguese fourth graders on national (NA) and international (PIRLS) assessments and its relation to reading skills in the following areas: phonological awareness, word recognition,...
This study describes the reading comprehension processes present in the most widely sold textbooks at the fourth grade level in Portugal and discusses how they compare to international assessments of reading literacy. We adopted the Progress of International Reading Literacy Study framework to categorize the questions in the textbooks. Our analyses...
How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research during the last two decades has begun to solve some...
This study presents new data about the cross-language application of the Late Closure principle (Frazier, 1978), whose universality was put in question by data from Spanish (Cuetos & Mitchell, 1988). Using sentences containing a restrictive relative clause unambiguously modifying the first or the second noun of a complex NP (os cúmplices do ladrão/...
In this study we evaluate processing costs of different types of anaphoric expressions during reading. We consider three types of anaphoric expressions in Subject sentential position: a null pronoun (pro), and two gaps produced by syntactic movement: a WH-variable and a NP copy. Given that coreferential pro exhibits more referential weight than wh-...
Taking into account the study of Luegi (2006), where eye movements of 20 Portuguese university students while reading text passages were analyzed, in this article we discuss some methodological issues concerning eye tracking measures to evaluate reading difficulties. Relating syntactic complexity, grammaticality and ambiguity to eye movements, we w...
