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The Role of Morphology and Sentence Context in Word Processing for Adults with Low Literacy
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Kathryn A. Tremblay; Katja McBane; Katherine S. Binder – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2026
Both vocabulary skill and morphological complexity, or whether words can be broken down into root words and affixes, have a significant impact on word processing for adults with low literacy. We investigated the influence of word-level variables of morphological complexity and root word frequency, and the sentence-level variable of context…
Descriptors: Adults, Morphology (Languages), Sentences, Language Processing