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van den Bunt, Mark R.; Groen, Margriet A.; Frost, Steve; Lau, Airey; Preston, Jonathan L.; Gracco, Vincent L.; Pugh, Kenneth R.; Verhoeven, Ludo T. W. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018
Studies of the role of phonological representations in learning to read have almost exclusively focused on speech perception. In the current study, we examined links between sensorimotor control of speech, reading, and reading-related abilities. We studied two languages, English and Dutch, which vary in the regularity of their spelling-to-sound…
Descriptors: Role, Phonology, Psychomotor Skills, Indo European Languages
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Temple, Christine M.; Shephard, Elizabeth E. – Brain and Language, 2012
TS school starters had enhanced receptive and expressive language on standardised assessment (CELF-P) and enhanced rhyme judgements, spoonerisms, and lexical decision, indicating enhanced phonological skills and word representations. There was marginal but consistent advantage across lexico-semantic tasks. On executive tasks, speeded naming of…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Language Acquisition, Rhyme, Semantics