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Poetry is a genre that supports all aspects of literacy-reading, writing, listening, and speaking, and it is the first to which most children are exposed through motherly lullabies. Yet, while many studies have been conducted on prose comprehension, there is little empirical res…

This study investigated the claims which Pienemann's (1998) Processability Theory makes about developmental stages as constrained by a proposed speech processing hierarchy. Specifically the study aimed at testing two main claims: (1) that stages cannot be skipped through formal …