Haskins Publications

Number	652
Year	1988
Drawer	12
Entry Date	11/15/1999
Authors	Fowler, A. E.
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Publication	Annals of Dyslexia, 38, 73-94.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0652.pdf
Abstract	36 2nd graders were presented with 2 oral syntactic (SYC) tasks that were equivalent in grammatical complexity but varied in actual task demands. In the grammaticality (GC) judgment task, Ss were asked to distinguish between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences, and in the error correction task, Ss were asked to remedy violations of GC. Performance on these sentence-level tasks was examined in relation to reading scores, memory span, and metaphonological skill. Results suggest that reading disability does not reflect problems in basic SYC knowledge. Instead, sentence-level problems in less-skilled readers may be caused by the nonlinguistic processing demands of typical SYC measures.
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