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Thirty-two children with dyslexia and 35 chronological-age-matched control children were tested on the recognition of words in normal sentences versus wordlist sentences with natural versus flat<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours against single-talker interference. The dyslexic children had overall poorer recognition performance than non-dyslexic children. Furthermore, semantic context differentially modulated the effect of<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours on the recognition performances of the two groups. Specifically, compared with flat<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours, natural<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours increased the recognition accuracy of dyslexic children less than non-dyslexic children in the wordlist condition. By contrast, natural<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours increased the recognition accuracy of both groups to a similar extent in the sentence condition. These results indicate that access to semantic context improves the effect of natural<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours on word recognition in adverse listening conditions by dyslexic children who are more impaired in the use of natural<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub>contours during isolated and unrelated word recognition. 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