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Treiman, Rebecca; Tincoff, Ruth; Rodriguez, Kira; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Francis, David J. – Child Development, 1998
Two studies examined young children's knowledge of letters' sounds and names and preschoolers' ability to learn various sound-letter mappings. Findings indicated that an important determinant of letter-sound knowledge is whether the sound occurs in the name of the letter, and its location. Children used knowledge of letters' names when learning…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Letters (Alphabet), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Treiman, Rebecca; Broderick, Victor; Tincoff, Ruth; Rodriguez, Kira – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Three studies examined linguistic factors influencing preschooler's phonemic awareness task performance. Results indicated no performance differences between fricatives and stops. Subjects were more likely to mistakenly judge that syllables began with a target phoneme when the initial phoneme differed from the target only in voicing than when it…
Descriptors: Consonants, Language Research, Performance Factors, Phonemes