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The Sbelling of Sdops: Preliterate Children's Spelling of Stops after /s/
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Hannam, Rachel; Fraser, Helen; Byrne, Brian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
Newly literate children have a tendency to spell s-stop sequences in words like "spin," "stop," "sky" with B, D, G (SBIN, SDOP, SGY), rather than with standard P, T, K. This observation potentially has implications for theories of English phonology as well as of language and literacy acquisition. Understanding these…
Descriptors: Phonology, Spelling, Phonemes, Young Children