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Justice, Laura M.; Pence, Khara; Bowles, Ryan B.; Wiggins, Alice – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
This study tested four complementary hypotheses to characterize intrinsic and extrinsic influences on the order with which preschool children learn the names of individual alphabet letters. The hypotheses included: (a) "own-name advantage," which states that children learn those letters earlier which occur in their own names, (b) the…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Alphabets, Influences, Preschool Children