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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Education

Background:

  • Reading achievement in dyslexic individuals is influenced by linguistic abilities beyond phonology.
  • Morphological skills are increasingly recognized as critical for reading development.
  • Investigating morphological knowledge in dyslexic children is essential for understanding their challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine morphological knowledge in children with dyslexia in the Bosnian language.
  • To determine if deficits in morphological skills contribute to reading difficulties in dyslexia.
  • To identify specific areas of morphological processing that are challenging for dyslexic children.

Main Methods:

  • A study involving 45 children with dyslexia compared against chronological age and reading level controls.
  • Assessment of various morphological skills, including word formation and inflectional morphology.
  • Statistical analyses, including discriminant function analysis and multivariate analyses of variance.

Main Results:

  • Children with dyslexia performed significantly worse on word formation and complex word formation tasks compared to controls.
  • Specific morphological challenges identified include suffixal formation, pronoun declension, and gender agreement in adjectives and numbers.
  • Multivariate analyses confirmed that chronological age and reading level groups outperformed dyslexic groups across all assessed tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Dyslexic children exhibit significant deficits in morphological knowledge.
  • These findings underscore the importance of addressing morphological abilities in early education for dyslexic learners.
  • Targeted interventions to develop morphological skills are recommended for elementary-grade dyslexic students.