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- Title
Reading and spelling acquisition in European Portuguese: a preliminary study.
- Authors
Fernandes, Sandra; Ventura, Paulo; Querido, Luís; Morais, José
- Abstract
We investigated the initial development of reading and spelling in European Portuguese. First-graders, tested in February and June, had to read and spell words and pseudowords. In February there were regularity and graphemic complexity effects, indicating that these children relied on grapheme–phoneme conversion. The lexicality effect found in spelling, in June, suggest that by the end of first grade these children had begun to construct an orthographic lexicon. However, lexical addressing is not inconsistent with phonological mediation as regularization errors increased between the sessions. Additionally, the previously reported similarity in global performance of Portuguese and French beginning readers may conceal processing differences that are related to specific characteristics of the corresponding orthographic codes.
- Subjects
READING; LANGUAGE arts; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; LEXICON; LINGUISTICS; PHONOLOGY; GRAPHEMICS; PHONEMICS; ENGLISH graphemics
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2008, Vol 21, Issue 8, p805
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11145-007-9093-7