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Messer, Marielle H.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Boom, Jan; Mayo, Aziza Y. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
The current study examined to what extent information in long-term memory concerning the distribution of phoneme clusters in a language, so-called long-term phonotactic knowledge, increased the capacity of verbal short-term memory in young language learners and, through increased verbal short-term memory capacity, supported these children's first…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Monolingualism, Long Term Memory, Vocabulary Development
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Treiman, Rebecca; Levin, Iris; Kessler, Brett – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
Letter names play an important role in early literacy. Previous studies of letter name learning have examined the Latin alphabet. The current study tested learners of Hebrew, comparing their patterns of performance and types of errors with those of English learners. We analyzed letter-naming data from 645 Israeli children who had not begun formal…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages, Emergent Literacy