SYLLABLES, PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, AND SPELLING

我们试图加深我们对英语音系学的理解和对英语的理解。 哪种语音结构会影响儿童的印刷体学习 英语。考察了音系学的两个具体方面--结构 音节的划分和双音节单词的音节划分。 关于音节结构，最近的行为和语言 证据表明，音节不只是一个单独的线串 声音或音素。相反，音素可以具有分层的内部 组织，归入一个声母(声母或词簇) 和一个韵母(元音加上任何后面的辅音)。关于…… 音节划分，不同的语言学理论提供了不同的规则 把单词分成音节。一些人认为音素可能属于 同时为两个音节，或为双音节。拟议的研究 使用几种技术来收集有关音节及其 结构，包括猪拉丁类型的文字游戏和错误在短期和 长期记忆任务。 基于关于音系结构的发现，拟议的研究 研究儿童对语音单位的认识。这是假设的 孩子们开始意识到音节可以分为声母和 在他们能够分析首集和RIME到他们的 组成音素。为了验证这一假说，对音系学的实验 开展了对4-7岁儿童的宣传。这是进一步的假设 许多儿童早期的拼写错误在以下方面是有意义的 关于音节的音系学理论。为了检验这一假设， 对大量一年级学生的计算机辅助分析 进行拼写。

We seek to further our understanding of English phonology and of the way in which phonological structure affects children's learning of printed English. Two specific aspects of phonology are examined -- the structure of the syllable and the division of two-syllable words into syllables. With regard to syllable structure, recent behavioral and linguistic evidence suggests that the syllable is not just a line string of individual sounds or phonomes. Rather, the phonemes may have a hierarchial internal organization, being grouped into an onset (initial consonant or cluster) and a rime (vowel plus any following consonants). With regard to syllabication, different linguistic theories offer different rules for the division of words into syllables. Some suggest that a phoneme may belong simultaneously to two syllables, or be ambisyllabic. The proposed research uses several techniques to gather information about syllables and their structure, including Pig Latin-type word games and error in short-term and long-term memory tasks. Based on the finding about phonological structure, the proposed research studies children's awareness of phonological units. It is hypothesized that children become aware that syllables can be divided into onset and rime units before they are able to analyze onsets and rimes onto their component phonemes. To test this hypothesis, experiments on phonological awareness of children aged 4-7 are carried out. It is further hypothesized that many of children's early spelling errors make sense when viewed in light of phonological theories about syllables. To test this hypothesis, computer-assisted analyses of a large collection of first graders' spellings are carried out.