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Orthographic Consistency Influences Morphological Processing in Reading Aloud: Evidence from a Cross-Linguistic Study
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Mousikou, Petroula; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Ktori, Maria; Javourey-Drevet, Ludivine; Crepaldi, Davide; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Grainger, Jonathan; Schroeder, Sascha – Developmental Science, 2020
The present study investigated whether morphological processing in reading is influenced by the orthographic consistency of a language or its morphological complexity. Developing readers in Grade 3 and skilled adult readers participated in a reading aloud task in four alphabetic orthographies (English, French, German, Italian), which differ in…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Reading Processes
Development of Letter Position Processing: Effects of Age and Orthographic Transparency
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Ktori, Maria; Pitchford, Nicola J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
This study investigated the relative extent to which developing readers (6- and 9-year-olds) of English (deep) or Greek (transparent) orthography exhibit serial and exterior letter effects in letter position encoding. Participants were given a visual search task that required detection of a pre-specified target letter within a random five-letter…
Descriptors: Spelling, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes, Visual Stimuli
Learning to Read Setswana and English: Cross-Language Transference of Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness and Word Reading Skills
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Lekgoko, Olemme; Winskel, Heather – Perspectives in Education, 2008
The current study investigates how beginner readers learn to read Setswana and English, and whether there is cross-language transference of skills between these two languages. Letter knowledge, phoneme awareness and reading of words and pseudowords in both Setswana and English were assessed in 36 Grade 2 children. A complex pattern emerged.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Grade 2, Reading Skills
Developmental Knowledge of Inter- and Intraword Boundaries: Evidence from American and Mandarin Chinese Speaking Beginning Readers.
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Hsia, Sophie – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Addresses native monolingual U.S. and Chinese incipiently bilingual children's ability to detect and identify inter- and intraword boundaries. Young children demonstrate similar patterns in their segmentation behavior and there is a developmental progression in this behavior. Mandarin Chinese subjects learning to read Chinese and English…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingualism, English, Language Research
Learning to Read in English and Chinese--Some Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Considerations.
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Leong, C. K. – 1976
This paper discusses some psycholinguistic and psychological bases of learning to read in two apparently disparate writing systems, English and Chinese. As an alphabet, English orthography has "more reason than rhyme"; relational units and markers (e.g., "hens" and "hence") are important. The combinatory properties of…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Chinese, English
The Relationship between Language and Reading Skills in Bilingual Spanish-English Speakers.
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Gottardo, Alexandra – Topics in Language Disorders, 2002
This study examined the relationship between first and second language oral language proficiency and reading skills in Spanish-English first grade children (n=85). Reading and phonological processing were related both within and across languages. Three factors (a reading factor, an oral proficiency factor, and an implicit phonological factor) were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, English, Grade 1