Morphological Processing in Children with Developmental Dyslexia: A Visual Masked Priming Study

This study examined the processing of derivational morphology and its association with early phonological skills 24 Dutch-speaking children dyslexia 46 controls matched for age. A masked priming experiment was conducted where semantic overlap between morphologically related pairs manipulated as part a lexical decision task. Results suggest that morphological is intact in when compared to age-matched controls. Significant effects were found each group. Children solely benefit from morpho-semantic information, while morpho-orthographic form properties morphemes-influenced Due longitudinal nature data set, an examination awareness’s role later development possible. In line psycholinguistic grain-size theory, fifth-grade be negatively correlated earlier second-grade PA skills. similar relation not among indicate potential shift cognitive processes involved during reading compensate observed deficits dyslexia.