Literacy Acquisition: A Plus Factor in French Children’s Word Segmentation After 5 Years of Age

Autor: Samantha Ruvoletto
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, Vol 21, Iss 4, Pp 93-116 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1496-0974
DOI: 10.20360/langandlit29444
Popis: Liaison (les[z]ours [le.zuʁs], ʽthe bears’) and enchaînement (une[n]autruche [y.no.tʁy], ʽan ostrich’) are two French phenomena of re-syllabification which entail children's errors in segmentation. Even though re-syllabified words are perceived blended, in writing they appear separated by graphic markers (ʽles ours’, ‘une autruche’). The current study aims to understand the frequency effect and the influence of literacy acquisition in word segmentation by a picture naming task and a writing task testing the same group of 37 children (in a primary school in France from 6:4 to 7:6) at three time periods (pre-readers, beginning readers and readers). Results revealed no frequency effects but a clear contribution of basic skills necessary to writing and reading activities in word segmentation.
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