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Maionchi-Pino, Norbert; de Cara, Bruno; Ecalle, Jean; Magnan, Annie – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This paper aims to investigate whether--and how--consonant sonority (obstruent vs. sonorant) and status (coda vs. onset) within syllable boundaries modulate the syllable-based segmentation strategies. Here, it is questioned whether French dyslexic children, who experience acoustic-phonetic (i.e., voicing) and phonological impairments, are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Children, Phonemes
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Maionchi-Pino, Norbert; Magnan, Annie; Ecalle, Jean – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
This study investigates the syllable's role in the normal reading acquisition of French children at three grade levels (1st, 3rd, and 5th), using a modified version of Cole, Magnan, and Grainger's (1999) paradigm. We focused on the effects of syllable frequency and word frequency. The results suggest that from the first to third years of reading…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Grade 5