This paper provides an analysis of the unique complex predicate system in MalakMalak, a non-Pama- Nyungan Daly language spoken Northern Australia. Results indicated that serial naming uniquely predicted reading, and the relation was stronger with isolated naming controlled for, suggesting that isolated naming functioned as a suppressor variable in the relation of serial naming with reading. Structural equation modeling was used to examine these relations within the context of the phonological processing model.
The present study examined whether there remained any variance in reading ability that could be uniquely explained by the rapid naming task while controlling for isolated naming. Some researchers have argued that isolated or discrete-trial naming is a more precise measure of lexical access than serial naming, thus it is likely that any shared variance between these two formats can be attributed to similar lexical access demands. The Phonological Processing theory suggests that rapid naming relates to reading because of similar demands of access to long-term stored phonological representations of visual stimuli. However, the construct being measured by rapid naming is yet undetermined. Rapid serial naming tasks are frequently used to explain variance in reading skill.
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