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Goswami, Usha; Gombert, Jean Emile; de Barrera, Lucia Fraca – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Three studies compared development of orthographic representations in children learning to read English, French, and Spanish, using nonsense words rhyming with real words, similar in phonology only, or unlike real words. Results are interpreted in terms of the level of phonology represented in the orthographic recognition units being developed by…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French