Phonemes matter: The role of phoneme-level awareness in emergent Chinese readers
| Autor: | Jingyuan Huang, Hua Shu, Twila Tardif, Ellen Hamilton Newman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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China Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Article Phonetics Phonological awareness Reading (process) Developmental and Educational Psychology Learning to read Humans Child Language media_common Pinyin Phonology Awareness Linguistics Reading Child Preschool Female Syllable Psychology Orthography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 108:242-259 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.09.001 |
| Popis: | The importance of phonological awareness for learning to read may depend on the linguistic properties of a language. This study provides a careful examination of this language-specific theory by exploring the role of phoneme-level awareness in Mandarin Chinese, a language with an orthography that, at its surface, appears to require little phoneme-level insight. A sample of 71 monolingual Mandarin-speaking children completed a phonological elision task and a measure of single-character reading. In this sample, 4- and 5-year-old preschoolers were unable to complete phoneme-level deletions, whereas 6- to 8-year-old first graders were able to complete initial, final, and medial phoneme-level deletions. In this older group, performance on phoneme deletions was significantly related to reading ability even after controlling for syllable- and onset/rime-level awareness, vocabulary, and Pinyin knowledge. We believe that these results reopen the question of the role of phonological awareness in reading in Chinese and, more generally, the nature of the mechanisms underlying this relationship. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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