Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Deavers, Rachael P.. (1999) Units of analysis in nonword reading : evidence from children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol.73 (No.3). pp. 208-242. ISSN 0022-0965

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Abstract

Four experiments examined variations in children's (chronological age range: 5 years 7 months to 9 years 10 months) and adults' reading strategy as a function of task demands. Experiment 1 found that less skilled readers (mean reading age: 8 years 8 months), though able to make use of rime-based spelling-to-sound correspondences (reading "by analogy"), predominantly used simple grapheme-phoneme-level correspondences in reading isolated unfamiliar items. Skilled readers (mean reading age: 11 years 6 months) were more likely to adopt an analogy strategy. Experiments 2 and 3 adopted versions of the "clue word" technique used by U. Goswami (1986, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 42, 73-83; 1988, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40A, 239-268) and found a much higher incidence of analogical responding by children of all ages, suggesting that reading strategy is task-dependent. Experiment 4 showed that adults' nonword-reading strategy is determined by list composition, in that grapheme-phoneme correspondences are used more when the list context contains nonwords. It is concluded that both adults and young children exhibit considerable flexibility and task-dependence in the levels of spelling-to-sound correspondence (analogies vs decoding) that they use and that grapheme-phoneme correspondences are preferred when maximum generalization to unfamiliar items is required. (C) 1999 Academic Press.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Reading, Psychology of, Reading -- Phonetic method -- Research, Phonetics, Graphemes
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Publisher:	Academic Press Inc
ISSN:	0022-0965
Date:	July 1999
Volume:	Vol.73
Number:	No.3
Number of Pages:	35
Page Range:	pp. 208-242
Identification Number:	10.1006/jecp.1999.2502
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Leverhulme Trust (LT)
Grant number:	F/215/AY (LT)
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/14423

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