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Download full textBurnaby, Barbara J.; Anthony, Robert J. – 1979
This study examined the psycholinguistic implications of using either of two different types of orthography--syllabic and roman--in Native language programs for Cree children with regard to readability, learnability, and the transfer of reading skills to and from reading in an official language (English or French). This study can also be applied…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education
Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Reports results of four experiments testing whether syllable structure affects children's performance in phonemic analysis tasks and in other reading related tasks. The experiments were motivated by theories that syllables consist of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (vowel and any following consonants). (AS/Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Liberman, Isabelle Y.; And Others – 1973
Speech research suggests why phoneme segmentation is more difficult than syllable segmentation. This study provides direct evidence of a developmental ordering of syllable and phoneme segmentation abilities in the young child. By means of a task which required preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children to tap out the number of segments in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Phonemes
Brand, Clara S. – 1978
A great deal of time could be saved in all grades and for all content areas if a truly phonic alphabet were developed. This alphabet would have only one symbol for each sound and only one sound for each symbol so that beginning readers could learn to pronounce any word they could see and spell any word they could pronounce correctly. Such an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Change Strategies, Language Skills, Language Standardization
Peer reviewedChen, Mary Jane; Yuen, Joseph Chak-Kau – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Results of a study of children's performance on pseudohomophone naming, similarity judgment, and lexical decision suggest that training in pinyin, a system for spelling Chinese words in Latin letters, helps child readers pronounce unfamiliar words, and makes them more responsive to visual information but less precise in word recognition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Non Roman Scripts, Phonemic Alphabets
Herold, William R. – 1972
The primary purpose of this experiment is to determine the effect of reading development based on phonemic transcription and traditional orthography on the pronunciation of French as a second language. Sixteen level 1 French classes in Western New York State schools participated in the experiment in which the control and experimental classes…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Experiments, French, Graphemes
