Abstract
EXPLORED THE ABILITY to decode phrases and clauses, using children at 3 developmental levels to determine the effects of syntactic structure on the eye-voice span. It was shown that even though younger readers have shorter spans, they also attempt to complete syntactic units. Study of the effect of syntactic structure on the reading of children of various age groups revealed critical information about the development of higher-order unit processing. The results obtained indicated that the type of syntactic unit (noun or verb phrase) influenced the eye-voice spans of younger readers. Supportive evidence is presented that the unit of decoding may be the clause rather than the phrase.
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