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On "Rhyme, Language, and Children's Reading."
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Bowey, Judith A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Argues that the results detailed in Bryant, MacLean, and Bradley's 1990 article do not differ greatly with those reported earlier by Bowey and Patel, and suggests that discrepancies between the two statistical analyses reflect the relative size of simple correlations and are attributable to differences in the designs of the two studies. (30…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Morphophonemics, Oral Language
On "Rhyme, Language and Children's Reading."
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Bryant, Peter; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Responds to Bowey's comments on an earlier article--"Rhyme, Language, and Children's Reading." Here, the statistical model used in the earlier analysis is clarified, and it is asserted that the new analysis presented by Bowey supports the hypothesis that children's sensitivity to rhyme/alliteration and reading is independent of general…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Morphophonemics
Developmental Loss of Speech Perception: Exposure to and Experience with a First Language.
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Burnham, Denis K. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
A review of research leads to the proposal that infants' perception of "fragile" contrasts is lost due to their lack of exposure to particular sounds. Perception of "robust" contrasts is lost around the onset of formal language training due to children's lack of experience with phonologically irrelevant sounds. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns