Type is not expressive enough. Even the youngest speakers are able to express a full range of emotions with their voice, while young readers read aloud monotonically as if convey robotic boredom. We augmented type expression similarly our voices. Specifically, we wanted in text words that spoken louder, drawn out and longer, at higher pitch. then asked children sentences these new kinds see wou...

How does the meaning of a word affect how quickly we can recognize it? Accounts of visual word recognition allow semantic information to facilitate performance but have neglected the role of modalityspecific perceptual attention in activating meaning. We predicted that modality-specific semantic information would differentially facilitate lexical decision and reading aloud, depending on how per...

This study aims to connect data from ocular movements and reading aloud speech to syntactic and discursive properties of texts, in order to understand integrative cognitive processes during reading for understanding and to identify prosodic and eye movements’ indicators of reading fluency. Assuming that in reading aloud there is a close interaction between syntax structure and speech prosody, w...

The study of how people can speak or read started from the beginning of the modern era of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics (e.g., Lichteim, 1885; Huey, 1898) and continues to this day. However, the two lines of research—speech production and reading aloud—have followed two separate and parallel paths: While they both concern language production, they seldom meet. Both have produced detail...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article describes the evidence about why reading aloud to children is important to help them develop the language and early reading skills necessary for school readiness. RECENT FINDINGS This information supports the value of Reach Out and Read; physicians advising parents to read aloud. CONCLUSION Reach Out and Read should be implemented in health care sites serving ...