Nonword Reading across Orthographies: How Flexible Is the Choice of Reading Units?.

Goswami, Usha; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Dalton, Louise; Schnieder, Wolfgang

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ERIC Number: EJ666360

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Publication Date: 2003

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Nonword Reading across Orthographies: How Flexible Is the Choice of Reading Units?

Goswami, Usha; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Dalton, Louise; Schnieder, Wolfgang

Applied Psycholinguistics, v24 n2 p235-47 Apr 2003

Used cross-language blocking experiments to test the hypothesis that children learning to read inconsistent orthographies would show considerable flexibility in making use of spelling-sound correspondences at different unit sizes, whereas children learning to read consistent orthographies should mainly employ small-size grapheme-phoneme strategies. (VWL)

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Hypothesis Testing, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spelling

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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