Stuart, M; Masterson, J; Dixon, M; Quinlan, P; (1999) Inferring sublexical correspondences from sight vocabulary: evidence from 6- and 7-year-olds. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A , 52 (2) pp. 353-366. 10.1080/713755820.

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Abstract

We report an experiment designed to investigate 6-to-7-year-old children's ability to acquire knowledge of sublexical correspondences between print and sound from their reading experience. A computer database containing the printed word vocabulary of children taking part in the experiment was compiled and used to devise stimuli controlled for grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) frequency and rime neighbourhood consistency according to the children's reading experience. Knowledge of GPC rules and rime units was compared by asking children to read aloud three types of nonword varying in regularity of GPC and consistency of rime pronunciation. Results supported the view that children can acquire knowledge of both GPC rules and rime units from their reading experience. GPC rule strength affects the likelihood of a GPC response; rime consistency affects the likelihood of a rime response.

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