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Direct linkGoswami, Usha; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Richardson, Ulla – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
Within alphabetic languages, spelling-to-sound consistency can differ dramatically. For example, English and German are very similar in their phonological and orthographic structure but not in their consistency. In English the letter "a" is pronounced differently in the words "bank," "ball," and "park,"…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, German, Reading Instruction, Phonology
