Morphological processing by French children was investigated in two experiments. The first showed that second and third graders read pseudowords such as chat-ure (cat-ish) composed of an illegally combined real stem and real derivational suffix faster and more accurately than they read matched pseudowords composed of a pseudostem and a real derivational suffix (e.g., chot-ure) or a pseudostem a...

rapid urban population is widely known as the main inducement of growing cities in terms of quantity and variety in form. however, the city expansion entails physical challenges and it has profound impacts on the issue of urban morphology. it raises global awareness beyond the urbanism and includes sociology, psychology, economics as well as environmental studies due to the implications of broa...

Background. Coherence is considered one of the most important qualities written discourse. Despite its fundamental importance, it still a fuzzy and abstract concept in English Second Language (ESL) contexts. Consequently, many ESL learners struggle to produce coherent text. Morphological, phonological, orthographic awareness, vocabulary knowledge, grammatical competence have been identified as ...

Abstract Studies investigating relations between morphological awareness and literacy in German, a language with rather transparent but asymmetric orthography, are sparse. Little is known about the role of grade level for these relationships their relative strength compared to those other language-related variables skills. This cross-sectional study was conducted German-speaking second-, third-...