Authors: Goldman, Susan¹; Meyerson, Peter²; Coté, Nathalie³

Source: Reading Psychology, Volume 27, Number 4, September-October 2006 , pp. 345-376(32)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This research investigates the effects of prosody on children's recall for stories using two successive studies. Study 1 is an ethnographic exploration of a group of fifth graders creating summaries of a children's story with overt prosodic elements. Study 2 is a quasi-experiment in which the story summaries created by students who heard one of two versions (more or less prosodic) of the story from Study 1 were compared. Overall, we find that the amount of prosody in a story has a significant effect on children's story recall and the quality of the stories they produce.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02702710600846894

Affiliations: 1: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA 3: Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina, USA

Publication date: 2006-09-01

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