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Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Levin, Iris; Hende, Nareman; Ziv, Margalit – Journal of Child Language, 2011
This study tested the effect of the phoneme's linguistic affiliation (Standard Arabic versus Spoken Arabic) on phoneme recognition among five-year-old Arabic native speaking kindergarteners (N=60). Using a picture selection task of words beginning with the same phoneme, and through careful manipulation of the phonological properties of target…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Phonology, Literacy
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Landsmann, Liliana Tolchinsky; Levin, Iris – Journal of Child Language, 1987
When Israeli four- to six-year-olds (N=120) wrote pairs of nouns sharing a syllable and sentences sharing either mainly nouns or mainly verbs, analysis indicated that the older the children, the more their invented writing reflected common linguistic elements and length of utterance. Nouns were represented in children's written productions earlier…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Hebrew