RT Journal Article
T1 A study of base frequency in spanish skilled and reading-disabled children: All children benefit from morphological processing in defining complex pseudowords
A1 Lázaro López-Villaseñor, Miguel
AB In this study, the base frequency (BF) effect is explored in reading-disabled and skilled readers of Spanish. A pseudoword definition task was completed by two groups of children.The pseudowords were composed from existing stems and affixes. The results show a facilitatory BF effect, suggesting that all children benefited from this aspect of morphology.A significant effect of group was also observed, showing that skilled readers scored better than reading-disabled children. The interaction between these variables was not significant.The overall pattern of data suggests that all children benefited from morphological processing to perform the definition task but that phonological difficulties in reading-disabledchildren prevented them from benefitting from the BF effect as much as their skilled peers.
PB Wiley
SN 1076-9242
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120443
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120443
LA eng
NO Lázaro, M. (2012). A study of base frequency in spanish skilled and reading‐disabled children: All children benefit from morphological processing in defining complex pseudowords. Dyslexia, 18(2), 130-138. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1436
DS Docta Complutense
RD 14 dic 2025