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An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers
Although the acquisition of letter-sound correspondences is a critical step in reading development, how and when children develop such correspondence remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we focused on Japanese hiragana letters to examine the implicit letter-sound correspondence using an eye...
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author | Higuchi, Hiroki Okumura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tessei |
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description | Although the acquisition of letter-sound correspondences is a critical step in reading development, how and when children develop such correspondence remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we focused on Japanese hiragana letters to examine the implicit letter-sound correspondence using an eye-tracking technique for 80 Japanese-speaking toddlers. The results showed that 32- to 48-month-olds (but not 24- to 32-month-olds) directed their gaze at the target letter. An additional experiment on a letter-reading task showed that 32- to 40-month-olds could barely read the presented hiragana letters. These findings suggest that toddlers have already begun to grasp implicit letter-sound correspondences well before actually acquiring the ability to read letters. |
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spelling | pubmed-78141122021-01-21 An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers Higuchi, Hiroki Okumura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tessei Sci Rep Article Although the acquisition of letter-sound correspondences is a critical step in reading development, how and when children develop such correspondence remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we focused on Japanese hiragana letters to examine the implicit letter-sound correspondence using an eye-tracking technique for 80 Japanese-speaking toddlers. The results showed that 32- to 48-month-olds (but not 24- to 32-month-olds) directed their gaze at the target letter. An additional experiment on a letter-reading task showed that 32- to 40-month-olds could barely read the presented hiragana letters. These findings suggest that toddlers have already begun to grasp implicit letter-sound correspondences well before actually acquiring the ability to read letters. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7814112/ /pubmed/33462248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79062-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Higuchi, Hiroki Okumura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tessei An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
title | An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
title_full | An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
title_fullStr | An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
title_full_unstemmed | An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
title_short | An eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in Japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
title_sort | eye-tracking study of letter-sound correspondence in japanese-speaking 2- to 3-year-old toddlers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7814112/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33462248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79062-y |
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