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Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca; Cassar, Marie – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Two experiments used phoneme counting tasks to investigate the foundations of phonemic awareness. Found that first graders and college students had some ability to distinguish between monophthongs (as in "he") and diphthongs (as in "how"), and they tended to count fewer "sounds" for syllables ending with the more…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Perception
Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca; Cassar, Marie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Examines young children's ability to use simple morphological relations among words as a source of information about the words' spelling. Found that children used morphological relations among words only to a small extent. Suggests that although phonology plays an important role in early spelling, young children can also use other sources of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Error Analysis (Language)
