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Treiman, Rebecca; Richmond-Welty, E. Daylene; Tincoff, Ruth – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Argues that an important type of child knowledge about letters is knowledge of the phonological structure of the letters' names in English. Concludes that learning the alphabet forms the basis for generalizations about the structure of letter names. (22 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Analysis (Language), Letters (Alphabet)