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Martins, Margarida; Silva, Cristina; Pereira, Miguel – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Our aim was to analyze the impact of the characteristics of occlusive versus fricative phonemes used in writing programs on the evolution of preschool children's writing. The participants were 39 5-year-old graphoperceptive children. Their intelligence, number of letters known, and phonological skills were controlled. Their writing was evaluated…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Childrens Writing, Phonemes
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Baker, Julie; Ryalls, Jack; Brice, Alejandro; Whiteside, Janet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
In the present study, voice onset time (VOT) measurements were compared between a group of individuals with moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and a group of healthy age- and gender-matched peers. Participants read a list of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, which included the six stop consonants. The VOT measurements were made from…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Alzheimers Disease, Computational Linguistics, Experimental Groups
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Woore, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2007
Learners' pronunciation errors when reading aloud in the L2 often suggest an inability to use the language's sound-symbol relationships, or grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs). UK teaching methodology has failed to provide systematic instruction in L2 phonological decoding, and there is an absence of research on the effectiveness of teaching…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Metacognition, Scores, Teaching Methods
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Byrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
A program to teach young children about phonological structure was evaluated with 64 experimental group and 62 control group preschoolers in Australia. Results support the efficacy of the program and the principle that phonological awareness and letter knowledge are necessary but not sufficient for acquisition of the alphabetic principle. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups