Context effects on heterophonic-homography resolution in learning to read hebrew

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• 作者：Amalia Bar-On ; Elitzur Dattner ; Dorit Ravid
• 关键词：Reading development ; Garden ; path ; Hebrew reading ; Context ; effect ; Monitoring and reanalysis ; Ambiguity/homograph resolution
• 刊名：Reading and Writing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：30
• 期：3
• 页码：463-487
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Language and Literature; Psycholinguistics; Education, general; Neurology; Literacy;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0905
• 卷排序：30

文摘

The paper examines the role of context in reading unpointed Hebrew, demonstrating the changing nature of reliance on context during the course of reading acquisition. We analyze the reading-aloud of sentences with heterographic-homographic ambiguity, aiming to shed light on the development of ambiguity resolution processes in typically developing schoolaged and adult populations. 171 Hebrew-speaking children and adolescents in seven age/schooling groups (beginning and end of second grade, third, fourth, seventh, and eleventh grade), and a group of adults, participated in the study. Using homographic garden-path and non-Garden-path sentences, we demonstrate the cumulative effect of context as well as processes of monitoring cum reanalysis. Two hypotheses are borne out in the present research: First, context effect is inherent to reading; it is present throughout all age/grade groups, becoming more efficient with age/grade level. Second, monitoring and reanalysis lag far behind context effects, appearing only as age and reading experience increase.