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Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers

This study investigates the effects of two sublexical variables, syllable frequency, and word length, in the spelling acquisition of novice spellers dealing with a transparent orthography, such as Italian. Two groups of 1 st-grade Italian children were tested respectively after 4 and 8 months of sch...

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Autores principales: Iaia, Marika, Marinelli, Chiara Valeria, Vizzi, Francesca, Angelelli, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9662710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36374921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277700
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author Iaia, Marika
Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
Vizzi, Francesca
Angelelli, Paola
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description This study investigates the effects of two sublexical variables, syllable frequency, and word length, in the spelling acquisition of novice spellers dealing with a transparent orthography, such as Italian. Two groups of 1 st-grade Italian children were tested respectively after 4 and 8 months of schooling, with a spelling-to-dictation task of single words created ad hoc by manipulating syllable frequency orthogonally (high vs low frequency of the first syllable) and length (short vs long words). The results show that after only four months of schooling, children could offset their difficulty in writing long words by taking advantage of the high frequency of the initial syllable. However, the regularity of Italian spelling makes it easy to capture fine-sized phoneme-to-grapheme units, rendering the syllable effect no longer detectable in more schooled children.
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spelling pubmed-96627102022-11-15 Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers Iaia, Marika Marinelli, Chiara Valeria Vizzi, Francesca Angelelli, Paola PLoS One Research Article This study investigates the effects of two sublexical variables, syllable frequency, and word length, in the spelling acquisition of novice spellers dealing with a transparent orthography, such as Italian. Two groups of 1 st-grade Italian children were tested respectively after 4 and 8 months of schooling, with a spelling-to-dictation task of single words created ad hoc by manipulating syllable frequency orthogonally (high vs low frequency of the first syllable) and length (short vs long words). The results show that after only four months of schooling, children could offset their difficulty in writing long words by taking advantage of the high frequency of the initial syllable. However, the regularity of Italian spelling makes it easy to capture fine-sized phoneme-to-grapheme units, rendering the syllable effect no longer detectable in more schooled children. Public Library of Science 2022-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9662710/ /pubmed/36374921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277700 Text en © 2022 Iaia et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
Vizzi, Francesca
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Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
title Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
title_full Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
title_fullStr Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
title_full_unstemmed Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
title_short Spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: The facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
title_sort spelling acquisition in a consistent orthography: the facilitatory effect of syllable frequency in novice spellers
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9662710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36374921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277700
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