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Gordana Keresteš; Erland Hjelmquist; Marika Veisson; Linda S. Siegel – Reading Psychology, 2024
We report results from children learning to read in one of four different languages: Croatian, English, Estonian and Swedish. The languages all have an alphabetical script but vary greatly on the dimension deep-shallow (or complexity-simplicity, or opacity-transparency), i.e., how close orthography and phonology are related. These languages also…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, English, Swedish, Serbocroatian
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Lin, Lu-Chun; Johnson, Cynthia J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Adele Miccio recognized the paucity of information on the phonological development of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and emphasized the need to apply advances in bilingual phonological research toward an appropriate phonological measure for bilingual children. In the spirit of her pioneering work, the present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition
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Swingley, Daniel; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Psychology, 2007
In two experiments, 1.5-year-olds were taught novel words whose sound patterns were phonologically similar to familiar words (novel neighbors) or were not (novel nonneighbors). Learning was tested using a picture-fixation task. In both experiments, children learned the novel nonneighbors but not the novel neighbors. In addition, exposure to the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Zamuner, Tania S.; Gerken, Louann; Hammond, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This research explores the role of phonotactic probability in two-year-olds' production of coda consonants. Twenty-nine children were asked to repeat CVC non-words that were used as labels for pictures of imaginary animals. The CVC non-words were controlled for their phonotactic probabilities, neighbourhood densities, word-likelihood ratings, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Speech
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Dabrowska, Ewa; Szczerbinski, Marcin – Journal of Child Language, 2006
57 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively. Results show that this ability develops early: the majority of two-year-olds were already productive with all inflections apart from…
Descriptors: Polish, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Adults
Qureshi, Saira I. – Online Submission, 2005
Certain aspects of meta-linguistic awareness are known to be essential for bilingual children's literacy acquisition. Phonological awareness is one of these skills. Beginning with a discussion of a pivotal developmental research model of control & analysis of cognitive skills in bilinguals, this review will discuss several studies that explored…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading Skills, Metalinguistics, Language Research