Erratum to “The Role of the Syllable in Lexical Segmentation in French: Word-Spotting Data” [Brain and Language, 81 (2002) 144–161]

Dumay, Nicolas; Frauenfelder, Uli

doi:10.1016/s0093-934x(02)00050-0

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“…In accordance, English-based studies consistently report that morphological awareness plays an important role for word recognition (i.e., reading accuracy). However, the role of morphological awareness for word recognition has been reported not only in English (e.g., Kirby et al 2012;Casalis et al 2015) but also in other orthographies along the transparency continuum, including French (Quémart et al 2012;Casalis et al 2015), Portuguese (de Freitas et al 2017 and Italian (Burani et al 2002;Angelelli et al 2014).…”

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Predictors of reading and spelling skills in German: the role of morphological awareness

Görgen

Simone

Schulte‐Körne

et al. 2021

Journal Research in Reading

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Background: The role of morphological awareness for literacy development is noncontroversial, but it is likely to depend on the characteristics of a specific orthography. Previous studies analysing the role of morphological awareness are mainly based on English samples; thus, it is unclear how generalisable these results are. In the current study, we evaluated the predictive pattern of morphological awareness on reading and spelling in German, which is characterised by high consistency between morphology and orthography. While many words cannot be spelled correctly by relying on phoneme-grapheme mappings, morphological awareness can be reliably used to infer the correct spelling for many words. In contrast, morphological awareness seems less important for reading in German given the high consistency of grapheme-phoneme mappings. Therefore, we hypothesised that the predictive pattern of morphological awareness for spelling is higher than for reading due to the structure of German orthography. In addition, we examined whether the association between morphological awareness and spelling reflects specific awareness about morphemic units or rather general knowledge about frequent and permissible letter sequences in words. Method: We developed web-based tasks that allowed us to assess morphological awareness using pseudowords. Based on the data of 3,122 third and fourth graders, we analysed the predictive pattern of morphological awareness on reading and spelling after controlling for non-verbal cognitive abilities, age/grade, phoneme awareness and sublexical orthographic sensitivity. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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