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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. doi:10.1006/jecp.1999.2502 ISSN 0022-0965.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jecp.1999.2502
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 | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > 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 | ||||
Official Date: | July 1999 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.73 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 35 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 208-242 | ||||
DOI: | 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) |
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