Prosodic awareness and punctuation ability in adult readers |
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| Authors: | Lindsay Heggie Dr Lesly Wade-Woolley |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;2. University of South Carolina, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
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| Abstract: | We examined the relationship between two metalinguistic tasks: prosodic awareness and punctuation ability. Specifically, we investigated whether adults' ability to punctuate was related to the degree to which they are aware of and able to manipulate prosody in spoken language. English-speaking adult readers (n = 115) were administered a receptive and a productive measure of prosodic awareness, a measure of their baseline knowledge of punctuation, and a productive measure of punctuation ability, in addition to control measures. Prosodic awareness emerged as a robust predictor of adults' ability to punctuate, over and above the influence of their punctuation knowledge, reading comprehension, and working memory. |
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