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Treiman, Rebecca; And Others – Cognition, 1995
First graders listened to the pronunciation of single syllable nonsense words and were asked to spell the words. Results showed that, for nonsense words of the form consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant, in which the consonant following the vowel was a nasal or a liquid, children often omitted the second consonant in their spelling. (BC)
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition