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ERIC Number: EJ541636
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
The Fragility of the Alphabetic Principle: Children's Knowledge of Letter Names Can Cause Them To Spell Syllabically Rather than Alphabetically.
Treiman, Rebecca; Tincoff, Ruth
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v64 n3 p425-51 Mar 1997
Studied whether kindergartners and first graders spell a sequence of phonemes with the corresponding consonant letter rather than spelling the sequence alphabetically with a consonant letter followed by a vowel. Found that children made letter-name spelling errors, especially when the consonant and vowel formed a complete syllable, showing that letter-name knowledge can cause deviation from the alphabetic principle. (KDFB)
Descriptors: Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spelling, Young Children
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Alphabetic Principle; Letter Recognition