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Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca – Developmental Psychology, 1994
The results of four experiments refute the idea that children rely heavily on their knowledge of letter names when they begin trying to spell words. Although kindergartners and first graders sometimes spelled the nonword /var/ as "vr," they were less likely to spell the nonword /ves/ as "vs" or the nonword /tib/ as…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Graphemes, Invented Spelling
Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca; Tincoff, Ruth – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Studied whether kindergartners and first graders spell a sequence of phonemes with the corresponding consonant letter rather than spelling the sequence alphabetically with a consonant letter followed by a vowel. Found that children made letter-name spelling errors, especially when the consonant and vowel formed a complete syllable, showing that…
Descriptors: Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spelling
Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Three studies examined preschoolers' and kindergartners' learning of correspondences between phonemes and graphemes. Findings suggest that children use their knowledge of letter names and their phonological segmentation skills rather than memorizing these links in a rote, paired-associate manner. (Contains 26 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Graphemes, Language Acquisition
