The Science of Reading :A Handbook by Margaret J. Snowling and Charles J. Hulme Glossary Quotations p. 538-549 MethodMap.blogspot.com

Affordance: Aspect of an objects structure that reliably predict how it should be held, manipulated and used. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Agraphia: a spelling disorder acquired following brain damage. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Bigram frequency: Frequency of occurrence in the language of a given two-letter sequence. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Comorbidity: Co-occurrence of two disorders. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Concordance: When two family members, such as twins, share a particular condition. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Elaborative inference: An inference that is not necessary to establish cohesion in a text, , , MethodMap.blogspot.com

Expository text: A text that primarily expresses facts and information. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Fixation: The amount of time that a readers eyes remain relatively still on a single word. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Hidden units: Internal units in a connectionist network that are neither input or output units. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Hyperlexia: Unexpectedly good single word reading ability, Coupled with poor text comprehension. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Labial images: The visible correlates (on the lips) of speech articulation. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Listening span: A test of working memory that requires simultaneous processing and storage of verbal information. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Modeling approaches: This is a general term used to refer to the idea that adults can teach behaviors and attitudes to a child by demonstration. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Narrative: A text that primarily tells a fictional or nonfictional story, , ,

Output units: The units in a connectionist network that encode the response of a network to any given input. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Phenotype: A trait or traits influenced by genes and environment. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Phonological hierarchy: A view of language where the basic units are phonetic features. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Preview benefit: The benefit derived from having previewed a word prior to fixating on it. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Regression: The eye movement (or saccade) back in the text to look at a previously read word. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Rime: A vowel, together with any following consonant(s) in the same syllable. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Saccade: The actual movement of the eye. MethodMap.blogspot.com

Simple view of reading: The hypothesis that reading comprehension ability is a product of listening comprehension ability (language) and word reading ability (decoding). MethodMap.blogspot.com

Situation model: A mental model of a situation described by the text, , , MethodMap.blogspot.com

Working memory: A limited capacity system that supports both the maintenance and processing of information during a task. MethodMap.blogspot.com