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Liow, Susan J. Rickard; Lee, Lay Choo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The Malay language has a transparent morphological system and, unlike English, it is written in a very shallow alphabetic-syllabic script. We predicted that beginner spellers (six-to eight-year-olds) of this Rumi script would encode words at the level of the syllable and morpheme, rather than the phoneme. Using the results of a 75-item spelling…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Spelling, Indonesian Languages, Young Children