TY  - JOUR
A1  - Karageorgos, Panagiotis
A1  - Wallot, Sebastian
A1  - Müller, Bettina
A1  - Schindler, Julia
A1  - Richter, Tobias
T1  - Distinguishing between struggling and skilled readers based on their prosodic speech patterns in oral reading: an exploratory study in grades 2 and 4
T2  - Acta psychologica
N2  - The purpose of this study was to examine if prosodic patterns in oral reading derived from Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) could distinguish between struggling and skilled German readers in Grades 2 (n = 67) and 4 (n = 69). Furthermore, we investigated whether models estimated with RQA measures outperformed models estimated with prosodic features derived from prosodic transcription. According to the findings, struggling second graders appear to have a slower reading rate, longer intervals between pauses, and more repetitions of recurrent amplitudes and pauses, whereas struggling fourth graders appear to have less stable pause patterns over time, more pitch repetitions, more similar amplitude patterns over time, and more repetitions of pauses. Additionally, the models with prosodic patterns outperformed models with prosodic features. These findings suggest that the RQA approach provides additional information about prosody that complements an established approach.
KW  - Recurrence quantification analysis
KW  - Reading prosody
KW  - German primary school
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/78927
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-789273
SN  - 0001-6918
VL  - 235
IS  - 103892
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -