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Fernandes, Sandra; Ventura, Paulo; Querido, Luis; Morais, Jose – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
We investigated the initial development of reading and spelling in European Portuguese. First-graders, tested in February and June, had to read and spell words and pseudowords. In February there were regularity and graphemic complexity effects, indicating that these children relied on grapheme-phoneme conversion. The lexicality effect found in…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grade 1, Foreign Countries, Written Language
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Ventura, Paulo; Morais, Jose; Kolinsky, Regine – Cognition, 2007
The influence of orthography on children's on-line auditory word recognition was studied from the end of Grade 2 to the end of Grade 4, by examining the orthographic consistency effect [Ziegler, J. C., & Ferrand, L. (1998). Orthography shapes the perception of speech: The consistency effect in auditory recognition. "Psychonomic Bulletin & Review",…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Cognitive Processes, Word Recognition