Morphological Contributions to Adolescent Word Reading: An Item Response Approach

The current study uses a crossed random-effects item response model to simultaneously examine both reader and word characteristics and interactions between them that predict the reading of 39 morphologically complex words for 221 middle school students. Results suggest that a reader's ability t...

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Published in:	Reading research quarterly Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 39 - 60
Main Authors:	Goodwin, Amanda P., Gilbert, Jennifer K., Cho, Sun-Joo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Newark Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-01-2013 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Adolescence Adolescents Cognitive ability Decoding Derivational morphology Early adolescence Item Response Theory Knowledge Linguistic morphology Middle school students Middle schools Morphemes Morphemic analysis Morphological complexity Morphological processing Morphology Opacity Orthographies Phonetics Phonology Reading comprehension Semantics To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply? Vocabulary Word frequency Word structure Words
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