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Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how executive function skills in verbal and nonverbal auditory tasks are related to early reading skills in beginning readers. Kindergarteners (N = 41, aged 5 years) completed verbal (phonemes) and nonverbal (environmental sounds) Continuous Performance tasks yielding measures of executive function (misses,…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Executive Function, Kindergarten
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Borgwaldt, Susanne R.; Hellwig, Frauke M.; De Groot, Annette M. B. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Alphabetic orthographies vary in the (in)consistency of the relations between spelling and sound patterns. In transparent orthographies, like Italian, the pronunciation can be predicted from the spelling, in contrast to opaque orthographies such as English, where spelling-sound correspondences are often inconsistent. The pronunciation of English…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Spelling, Pronunciation, Contrastive Linguistics