The utility of Chinese tone processing skill in detecting children with English reading difficulties was examined through differences in a Chinese tone experimental task between a group of native English-speaking children with reading disabilities (RD) and a comparison group of children with normal reading development (NRD). General auditory…

Investigates the relationship between performance in phonemic segmentation and reading and writing ability. Finds that onset-rime distinction is relevant for segmentation, while word meaning is not. Concludes that a serial model of segmentation is inadequate, and that an articulatory rather than a phonological code is the object of segmentation.…

This article focuses on applying the SERIOL model of orthographic processing to dyslexia. The model is extended to include a phonological route and reading acquisition. We propose that the temporal alignment of serial orthographic and phonological representations is a key aspect of learning to read, driving the formation of a phonemic encoding.…

Investigates whether there is any relationship between phonemic segmentation skills and the ability to use a nonlexical approach to spelling. Finds that poor spellers make significantly fewer transitional errors than controls, there being a nonsignificant tendency for them to make more prephonetic and phonetic errors. (MG)

Acquisition of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity are processes that are central to early reading development in several languages. The language-specific characteristics of the alphasyllabaries ( Bright, 1996), however, challenge the constructs of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity as discussed in the context of…