The role of speech prosody and text reading prosody in children's reading comprehension

Abstract

The variance that speech prosody explained in reading comprehension scores should not be neglected. Speech prosody seems to facilitate the construction of meaning in written language.

Focus in Dutch reading: an eye-tracking experiment with heritage speakers of Turkish

“…For instance, Miller and Schwanenflugel (2006) found that children who used more pitch changes while reading aloud understood the text better. Veenendaal, Groen, and Verhoeven (2014) found that, besides reading aloud prosody, proficiency in speech prosody (as elicited in a story-telling task) had a positive effect on reading comprehension. Whalley and Hansen (2006) demonstrated that children with a poorer performance on accent placement in a reiterative speech task performed poorer on reading comprehension than children with a better prosodic proficiency (see also Holliman, Wood, & Sheehy, 2010a, 2010b.…”

Bidirectional Relations Between Text Reading Prosody and Reading Comprehension in the Upper Primary School Grades: A Longitudinal Perspective

“…Recent studies have consistently shown that text reading prosody—a constituent of text reading fluency— and reading comprehension are associated (Benjamin & Schwanenflugel, 2010; Kuhn & Stahl, 2003; Miller & Schwanenflugel, 2006, 2008; Rasinski, Rikli, & Johnston, 2009; Veenendaal, Groen, & Verhoeven, 2014, 2015). Text reading prosody refers to the extent to which children use appropriate intonation, such as phrasing, use of pauses, and signalling of word boundaries which makes reading aloud sound more like natural speech.…”

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“…This study sought to describe the performance of fluent adults in different speech rate measures. Studies show that the analysis of speech rate has proven valuable in evaluating individuals with typical and altered speech development (1,2,15,16,(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) . However, there is no consensus on the best methodology for assessing speech rate, which should be associated with the clinician's objective.…”

“…These temporal measures and variables were used in further studies of the reading performance of adults (14) , of the reading performance of children (15) , of the reading performance of children with dyslexia (16) , in the speech performance of military commanders (17) , in the speech performance of stutterers and fluent individuals (5,18) , among others.…”