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Serrano, Francisca; Defior, Sylvia – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
This paper investigates Spanish dyslexic spelling abilities: specifically, the influence of syllabic linguistic structure (simple vs consonant cluster) on children's spelling performance. Consonant clusters are phonologically complex structures, so it was anticipated that there would be lower spelling performance for these syllabic structures than…
Descriptors: Reading, Age, Spelling, Dyslexia
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Defior, Sylvia; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1996
Examines effects of several lexical and sublexical variables (lexical category and frequency, syllabic structure, word length) in reading acquisition in a transparent language--Spanish. Compares effects of variables in 140 normal and poor young readers. Finds that all variables produced a significant effect on the number of errors made by the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)