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ERIC Number: EJ561706
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Can Children and Adults Focus on Sound as Opposed to Spelling in a Phoneme Counting Task?
Treiman, Rebecca; Cassar, Marie
Developmental Psychology, v33 n5 p771-80 Sep 1997
Two experiments used phoneme counting tasks to investigate the foundations of phonemic awareness. Found that first graders and college students had some ability to distinguish between monophthongs (as in "he") and diphthongs (as in "how"), and they tended to count fewer "sounds" for syllables ending with the more vowel-like consonant /r/ than for syllables ending with less sonorous consonants. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Perception, Children, Computation, Discrimination Learning, Perceptual Development, Phonemes, Phonemic Awareness, Spelling
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Monophthongs; Phonological Awareness