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Hulme, Charles; Caravolas, Marketa; Malkova, Gabriela; Brigstocke, Sophie – Cognition, 2005
Two studies investigated whether knowledge of specific letter-sound correspondences is a necessary precursor of children's ability to isolate phonemes in speech. In both studies, Czech and English children reliably isolated phonemes for which they did not know the corresponding letter. These data refute the idea that phoneme manipulation ability…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Reading Processes
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Caravolas, Marketa; Volin, Jan; Hulme, Charles – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
Two studies investigated the importance of phoneme awareness relative to other predictors in the development of reading and spelling among children learning a consistent orthography (Czech) and an inconsistent orthography (English). In Study 1, structural equation models revealed that Czech (n=107) and English (n=71) data were fitted well by the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Structural Equation Models, Slavic Languages, Spelling