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Author Treiman, Rebecca.

Title Beginning to spell : a study of first-grade children / Rebecca Treiman.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-345) and indexes.
Contents Spelling of Words -- Spelling of Phonemes: Correct Spellings, Legal Substitutions, and Illegal Substitutions -- Vowels -- Consonants -- Influence of Orthography on Children's Spelling of Vowels and Consonants -- Vowel Omissions -- Consonant Omissions -- Reversals -- Inflected and Derived Words.
Summary This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theoretical framework necessary to understand how children's ability to write is related to their ability to speak a language. The author explores areas in a field dominated by work traditionally concerned with the psychodynamics of reading skills and, in so doing, highlights the importance of learning to spell for both psycholinguists and educators, since as they begin to spell, children attempt to represent the phonological, or sound form, of words. The study of children's spelling can shed light on the nature of phonological systems and can illuminate the way sounds are organized into larger units, such as syllables and words. Research on children's spelling leads directly to an understanding of the way phonological knowledge is acquired and how phonological systems change with the development of reading and writing ability. In addition to this insight concerning cognitive processes, the findings presented here have implications for how spelling should be taught and why some writing systems are easier to master than others.; The work will interest a wide range of cognitive and developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, and educational psychologists, as well as linguists and educators interested in psycholinguistics.
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Subject English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Study and teaching (Primary)
English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Study and teaching (Primary)
First grade (Education)
First grade (Education)
Indexed Term Psycholinguistics
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Treiman, Rebecca. Beginning to spell. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 92027415
ISBN 9780195062199 (acid-free paper)
0195062191 (acid-free paper)
9780195362831 (electronic book)
0195362837 (electronic book)
1280524480
9781280524486
0195062191 (acid-free paper)