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Manjula Prabhu; Prabhu Shwetha; Haralakatta Shivananjappa Somashekara – Reading Psychology, 2024
The role of phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge in learning to read is well established in mono-lingual English speakers. However, it is under explored in the context of English Language Learners (ELL), especially in regions like India where the native language differs phonologically and orthographically from the target literate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Grade 1
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Coalson, Geoffrey A.; Byrd, Courtney T.; Davis, Barbara L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The primary purpose of this study was to re-examine the influence of phonetic complexity on stuttering in young children through the use of the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age = 3 years, 7 months; SD = 11.20 months). Lexical and linguistic factors were accounted for…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Stuttering, Disabilities, Young Children
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Morris, Sherrill R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the temporal stability of 5 independent measures of phonological skill: phonetic inventory (initial, final), word shape, syllable structure level, and the index of phonetic complexity. Method: Ten toddlers with typical development participated in two 20-min play sessions within a 1-week period.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Speech, Test Reliability, Phonology
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Liu, Huei-Mei; Tsao, Feng-Ming; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Using Mandarin Chinese, a "tone language" in which the pitch contours of syllables differentiate words, the authors examined the acoustic modifications of infant-directed speech (IDS) at the syllable level to test 2 hypotheses: (a) the overall increase in pitch and intonation contour that occurs in IDS at the phrase level would not distort…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Syllables, Mandarin Chinese
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Geudens, Astrid; Sandra, Dominiek; Van den Broeck, Wim – Brain and Language, 2004
This study explored developmental differences in children's segmentation skills of VC and CV syllables (e.g., /af/ and /fa/) in relation to their early reading abilities. To this end, we followed a subgroup of Dutch speaking prereaders who participated in Geudens and Sandra (2003, Experiment 1), and replicated the segmentation task in first grade,…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Syllables, Reading Skills, Indo European Languages