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ERIC Number: EJ328545
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Children's Word Recognition in Context: Spreading Activation, Expectance, and Modularity.
Stanovich, Keith E.; And Others
Child Development, v56 n6 p1418-28 Dec 1985
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)
Descriptors: Adults, Context Effect, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 5, Models, Reading Research, Word Recognition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Expectancy Based Attentional Process; Modularity; Spreading Activation Process