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Direct linkTreiman, Rebecca; Bowman, Margo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
This study examined the effect of dialect variation on children's spelling by using devoicing of final /d/ in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) as a test case. In line with the linguistic interference hypothesis, African American 6-year-olds were significantly poorer at spelling the final "d" of words such as "salad"…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Spelling, Interference (Language)
Bowman, Margo; Treiman, Rebecca – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
According to many views of literacy development, prereaders use a logographic approach when they attempt to link print and speech. If so, these children should find pairs in which the spelling-pronunciation links are consistent with their writing system no easier to learn than arbitrary pairs. We tested this idea by comparing the ability of U.S.…
Descriptors: Cues, Spelling, Vowels, Written Language
