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Savannah M. Heintzman; Nicole J. Conrad; S. Hélène Deacon – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Young children clearly know quite a bit about the conventions of written language; for instance, 5-year-old children are sensitive to the fact that words tend to include both consonants and vowels, rather than just one or the other. The core theoretical debate lies in whether this understanding of sub-lexical orthographic regularities…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Knowledge Level, Achievement Gains, Children
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Shengnan, Zhang – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
As there is no vowel length contrast in Chinese, Chinese learners of Thai (CLTs) often have difficulty distinguishing between short and long vowels, especially when the same vowel grapheme in Thai orthography can be pronounced as both a short and a long vowel. This study examined the importance of metalinguistic knowledge (MLK) used by CLTs before…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thai, Vowels, Metalinguistics
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Bang, Hye-Young; Clayards, Meghan; Goad, Heather – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The developmental trajectory of English /s/ was investigated to determine the extent to which children's speech productions are acoustically fine-grained. Given the hypothesis that young children have adultlike phonetic knowledge of /s/, the following were examined: (a) whether this knowledge manifests itself in acoustic spectra that…
Descriptors: Vowels, Hypothesis Testing, Young Children, Gender Differences
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Almekhlafy, Sultan Saleh Ahmed – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Graphophonemic (GP) knowledge of a language represents the foundation of a good learning start point. In the English as a foreign language (EFL) context, many learners lack adequate GP knowledge of English, resulting in difficulty to master the language skills even at the tertiary level. Thus, this study investigated first-year university,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Martin, Katherine I. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Orthographic knowledge, the general ability to learn, store, and use information about the orthographic form of words (Stanovich & West, 1989), is a crucial skill for supporting literacy. Although the development of first language (L1) orthographic awareness is impacted by the characteristics of a learner's L1 writing system, relatively little…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Knowledge Level, Literacy Education, English (Second Language)
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Jacewicz, Ewa; Fox, Robert Allen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how linguistic knowledge interacts with indexical knowledge in older children's perception under demanding listening conditions created by extensive talker variability. Method: Twenty-five 9- to 12-year-old children, 12 from North Carolina (NC) and 13 from Wisconsin (WI), identified 12 vowels…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Vowels, Knowledge Level
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Díaz-Cárdenas, A. F.; Díaz-Furlong, H. A.; Díaz-Furlong, A.; Sankey-García, M. R. – International Education Studies, 2016
Although there is a growing consensus that, in reading acquisition, it is essential to provide children with learning activities that promote the development of reading cognitive schemes, particularly intra-syllabic related patterns, there is no agreement on which kind of syllabic schemes should be worked out in the first place. The main aim of…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Syllables, Alphabets, Vowels
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Toro, Juan M.; Pons, Ferran; Bion, Ricardo A. H.; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Much research has explored the extent to which statistical computations account for the extraction of linguistic information. However, it remains to be studied how language-specific constraints are imposed over these computations. In the present study we investigated if the violation of a word-forming rule in Catalan (the presence of more than one…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Computational Linguistics, Romance Languages, Vowels
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Quam, Carolyn; Swingley, Daniel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Phonology provides a system by which a limited number of types of phonetic variation can signal communicative intentions at multiple levels of linguistic analysis. Because phonologies vary from language to language, acquiring the phonology of a language demands learning to attribute phonetic variation appropriately. Here, we studied the case of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Linguistics, Word Recognition, Phonology
Ansarin, Ali Akbar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2006
Learners' consciousness of mismatch of the phonemic inventory of their mother tongue with the language being learned may prompt them to activate their conscious grammar knowledge to monitor their oral production. This happens only when they become conscious of the nature of the task in advance. Otherwise the mismatch is believed to challenge their…
Descriptors: Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Phonemic Awareness