Vowels, syllables, and letter names: Differences between young children's spelling in English and Portuguese
Vowels, syllables, and letter names: Differences between young children's spelling in English and Portuguese
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jecp.2005.01.006
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发表时间：
2005-10-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Treiman, R
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作者：
Pollo, TC;Kessler, B;Treiman, R
据报道，讲葡萄牙语的儿童比讲英语的儿童能产生更多以元音和音节为导向的拼写。为了调查这种差异的程度和根源，我们分析了儿童的词汇，发现葡萄牙语单词比英语单词有更多的元音字母名称和更高的元音辅音比率。在拼写实验中，我们发现说葡萄牙语的人比说英语的人使用更多的元音，但并没有产生更多的音节拼写。我们观察到的差异归因于语言及其书写和字母名称系统的数量差异。他们不支持罗曼语族要经历额外的音节发展阶段这一普遍观点。 (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
Young Portuguese-speaking children have been reported to produce more vowel- and syllable-oriented spellings than have English speakers. To investigate the extent and source of such differences, we analyzed children's vocabulary and found that Portuguese words have more vowel letter names and a higher vowel-consonant ratio than do English words. In a spelling experiment, we found that Portuguese speakers used more vowels, but did not produce more syllabic spellings, than did English speakers. The differences that we observed are attributable to quantitative differences in the languages and their writing and letter name systems. They do not support the widespread idea that speakers of Romance languages pass through an additional, syllabic, stage of development. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.