Onsets and Rimes in a Phonologically Transparent Orthography: Differences between Good and Poor Beginning Readers of Dutch

This study investigates whether beginning readers of Dutch develop onset-rime units when these units are emphasized in their reading method, even when the orthography is transparent at the grapheme–phoneme level. The speed of naming intact pseudowords (wot) was compared with the speed of naming pseu...

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Published inBrain and language Vol. 68; no. 1-2; pp. 284 - 290
Main Authors Geudens, Astrid, Sandra, Dominiek
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.06.1999
Subjects
beginning readers
Beginning Reading
Child
Cognition - physiology
Dutch
Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence
Humans
Key Words: onset-rime
Language
Phonetics
Phonological Awareness
Random Allocation
Reading
Reading Ability
Reading Acquisition
reading skill
Verbal Learning
reading skill
Key Words: onset-rime
beginning readers
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ISSN0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI10.1006/brln.1999.2084

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Summary:This study investigates whether beginning readers of Dutch develop onset-rime units when these units are emphasized in their reading method, even when the orthography is transparent at the grapheme–phoneme level. The speed of naming intact pseudowords (wot) was compared with the speed of naming pseudowords with an onset-rime (w ot) or body-coda (wo t) segmentation. Whereas body-coda items consistently slowed down naming for both good and poor readers, the onset-rime effect covaried with reading skill: it changed from inhibitory for good readers to facilitatory for poor readers. Two alternative explanations are proposed.
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ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1006/brln.1999.2084