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Tong, Xiuli; McBride, Catherine – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
This study examined how Chinese children acquire the untaught positional constraints of stroke patterns that are embedded in left-right structured and top-bottom structured characters. Using an orthographic regularity pattern elicitation paradigm, 536 Hong Kong Chinese children at different levels of reading (kindergarten, 2nd, and 5th grades)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Written Language, Language Acquisition
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Gerakaki, Svetlana – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
In Greek orthography, stress position is marked with a diacritic. We investigated the developmental course of processing the stress diacritic in Grades 2 to 4. Ninety children read 108 pseudowords presented without or with a diacritic either in the same or in a different position relative to the source word. Half of the pseudowords resembled the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Grade 4, Grade 2, Greek