Morphological Processes in Learning To Read: A Special Issue of scientific Studies of Reading

by Ludo Verhoeven (Editor), Charles A. Perfetti (Editor)

This special issue compiles a set of five research-based articles that examine the role of morphological representations in learning to modeling morphological processing, uncovering morphological awareness, finding units of analysis, and contrasting implicit vs. explicit learning. The focus is on the role of morphology in learning to read in three alphabetic English, Dutch, and French. As such, the findings from the large body of studies on the acquisition of reading and spelling in English is cross-validated with research evidence from two other languages.

104 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003