TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the Relationship Between Prosody and Reading Outcomes in Children Using the PEPS-C
AU - Lochrin, Margaret
AU - Arciuli, Joanne
AU - Sharma, Mridula
PY - 2015/1/6
Y1 - 2015/1/6
N2 - This study investigated the relationship between both receptive and expressive prosody and each of three reading outcomes: accuracy of reading aloud words, accuracy of reading aloud nonwords, and comprehension. Participants were 63 children aged 7 to 12 years. To assess prosody, we used the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech Communication (PEPS-C; Peppé & McCann, 2003). Results revealed that certain subtests of the PEPS-C predicted a substantial proportion of variance across reading outcomes, even after age and segmental phonological awareness have been considered. In fact, our findings suggest that the PEPS-C compares favourably with a well-established test of segmental phonological awareness, the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP; Wagner, Torgesen, & Rashotte, 1999), in terms of its power to predict variability in children’s reading.
AB - This study investigated the relationship between both receptive and expressive prosody and each of three reading outcomes: accuracy of reading aloud words, accuracy of reading aloud nonwords, and comprehension. Participants were 63 children aged 7 to 12 years. To assess prosody, we used the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech Communication (PEPS-C; Peppé & McCann, 2003). Results revealed that certain subtests of the PEPS-C predicted a substantial proportion of variance across reading outcomes, even after age and segmental phonological awareness have been considered. In fact, our findings suggest that the PEPS-C compares favourably with a well-established test of segmental phonological awareness, the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP; Wagner, Torgesen, & Rashotte, 1999), in terms of its power to predict variability in children’s reading.
KW - receptive prosody
KW - expressive prosody
KW - reading outcomes
KW - children
KW - PEPS-C
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920622446&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/FT130101570
U2 - 10.1080/10888438.2014.976341
DO - 10.1080/10888438.2014.976341
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84920622446
SN - 1088-8438
VL - 19
SP - 72
EP - 85
JO - Scientific Studies of Reading
JF - Scientific Studies of Reading
IS - 1
ER -