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ERIC #:EJ328545
Title:Children's Word Recognition in Context: Spreading Activation, Expectance, and Modularity.
Authors:Stanovich, Keith E.; And Others
Descriptors:Adults; Context Effect; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Grade 3; Grade 5; Models; Reading Research; Word Recognition
Source:Child Development, v56 n6 p1418-28 Dec 1985
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Publication Date:1985-00-00
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Pub Types:Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Abstract:Third- and fifth-graders, like adults, quickly named words preceded by either an incongruous or a normal incomplete sentence. Results (1) support the assumption that context effects on children's word recognition are caused by spreading-activation and expectancy-based-attentional processes operating simultaneously and (2) indicate that word recognition input system of third-graders displays some modular properties. (Author/RH)
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Identifiers:Expectancy Based Attentional Process; Modularity; Spreading Activation Process
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Audiences:Researchers
Languages:English
Education Level:Elementary Education; Grade 3; Grade 5
 

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