Publications

Publication details [#52654]

Smith Cairns, Helen and Lorain Szabo Wankoff. 2009. Why Ambiguity Detection Is a Predictor of Early Reading Skill. Communication Disorders Quarterly 30 (3) : 183–192.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | metalinguistic awareness | psycholinguistics | reading comprehension | reading, L1-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

Regression analysis shows independent contributions of psycholinguistic processing and metalinguistic skills to children's ambiguity detection, which, in turn, is the only predictor of reading comprehension.