Preschoolers Use Partial Letter Names to Select Spellings: Evidence from Portuguese
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| Title: | Preschoolers Use Partial Letter Names to Select Spellings: Evidence from Portuguese |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Pollo, Tatiana Cury, Treiman, Rebecca, Kessler, Brett |
| Source: | Applied Psycholinguistics. Apr 2008 29(2):195-212. |
| Availability: | Cambridge University Press. 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994-2133. Tel: 800-872-7423; Tel: 845-353-7500; Fax: 845-353-4141; e-mail: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org; Web site: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=APS |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Language Research, Spelling, Phonemes, Preschool Children, Portuguese, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Psycholinguistics |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0142716407080095 |
| ISSN: | 0142-7164 |
| Abstract: | Two studies examined children's use of letter-name spelling strategies when target phoneme sequences match letter names with different degrees of precision. We examined Portuguese-speaking preschoolers' use of "h" (which is named /a'ga/ but which never represents those sounds) when spelling words beginning with /ga/ or variants of /ga/. We also looked at use of "q" (named /ke/) when spelling /ke/ and /ge/. Children sometimes used "h" for stimuli beginning with /ga/ and /ka/, and q when spelling words and nonwords beginning with /ke/ and /ge/ they did not use these letters when stimuli began with other sequences. Thus, their spellings evinced use of letter-name matches primarily when consonant-vowel sequences matched, such that vowels must be exact but consonants could differ in voicing from the target phoneme. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2010 |
| Accession Number: | EJ894066 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Two studies examined children's use of letter-name spelling strategies when target phoneme sequences match letter names with different degrees of precision. We examined Portuguese-speaking preschoolers' use of "h" (which is named /a'ga/ but which never represents those sounds) when spelling words beginning with /ga/ or variants of /ga/. We also looked at use of "q" (named /ke/) when spelling /ke/ and /ge/. Children sometimes used "h" for stimuli beginning with /ga/ and /ka/, and q when spelling words and nonwords beginning with /ke/ and /ge/ they did not use these letters when stimuli began with other sequences. Thus, their spellings evinced use of letter-name matches primarily when consonant-vowel sequences matched, such that vowels must be exact but consonants could differ in voicing from the target phoneme. |
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| ISSN: | 0142-7164 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0142716407080095 |
