Children's processing of irony during reading in English: An eye-tracking study.

We know a great deal about the mechanisms underpinning literacy, yet gaps exist in understanding some complex literacy skills. The processing of irony during reading is one such skill. We used eye-tracking and behavioral measures to examine the processing of irony during reading in English in 30 children aged 10 to 12 years (33% female and 67% male; M = 11.

Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children.

Background: Some research shows a link between sleep behaviours and school achievement in English-speaking children and adolescents.

Aims: The current study aimed to examine the relationship between children's sleep behaviours and aspects of their school achievement in Mandarin-speaking children who are living in Taiwan.

Sample: The present study reports on 69 second-grade children (age range = 6.

Semantic reversal anomalies under the microscope: Task and modality influences on language-associated event-related potentials.

Semantic reversal anomalies (SRAs)-sentences where an implausibility is created by reversing participant roles-have attracted much attention in the literature on the electrophysiology of language. In spite of being syntactically well formed but semantically implausible, these sentences unexpectedly elicited a monophasic P600 effect in English and Dutch rather than an N400 effect. Subsequent research revealed variability in the presence/absence of an N400 effect to SRAs depending on the language examined and the choice of verb type in English.