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Spinelli, Elsa; Kandel, Sonia; Guerassimovitch, Helena; Ferrand, Ludovic – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
"AU" /o/ and "AN" /a/ in French are both complex graphemes, but they vary in their strength of association to their respective sounds. The letter sequence "AU" is systematically associated to the phoneme /o/, and as such is always parsed as a complex grapheme. However, "AN" can be associated with either one…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Handwriting, Graphemes, French
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Maionchi-Pino, Norbert; Magnan, Annie; Ecalle, Jean – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
This study investigates the syllable's role in the normal reading acquisition of French children at three grade levels (1st, 3rd, and 5th), using a modified version of Cole, Magnan, and Grainger's (1999) paradigm. We focused on the effects of syllable frequency and word frequency. The results suggest that from the first to third years of reading…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Grade 5