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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

Huang, H. S.; Hanley, J. Richard – Cognition, 1995
Examined the relationship between phonological awareness and reading skills in eight-year olds from Britain, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Found that performance of Chinese children on phonological tests was not significantly related to their reading ability, in contrast to performance of English children, whose results continued to show a significant…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cross Cultural Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), Elementary School Students