2016
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000916000040
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Syllabic parsing in children: a developmental study using visual word-spotting in Spanish

Abstract: Some inconsistency is observed in the results from studies of reading development regarding the role of the syllable in visual word recognition, perhaps due to a disparity between the tasks used. We adopted a word-spotting paradigm, with Spanish children of second grade (mean age: 7 years) and sixth grade (mean age: 11 years). The children were asked to detect one-syllable words that could be found at the beginning of pseudo-words, with the boundary between the word and the remaining letters being manipulated.… Show more

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“…Thus, empirical studies indicate the importance of the syllable as the sublexical unit that bridges phonology and lexical entries, thereby facilitating word recognition fluency. Similar results have been found with Finnish children (Hautala, Aro, Eklund, Lerkkanen, & Lyytinen, 2012; Häikiö, Hyönä, & Bertram, 2015) and with Spanish children (Alvarez, Garcia-Saavedra, Luque, & Taft, 2017; Jiménez, García, O’Shanahan, & Rojas, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Thus, empirical studies indicate the importance of the syllable as the sublexical unit that bridges phonology and lexical entries, thereby facilitating word recognition fluency. Similar results have been found with Finnish children (Hautala, Aro, Eklund, Lerkkanen, & Lyytinen, 2012; Häikiö, Hyönä, & Bertram, 2015) and with Spanish children (Alvarez, Garcia-Saavedra, Luque, & Taft, 2017; Jiménez, García, O’Shanahan, & Rojas, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Under these experimental conditions, we explored two alternative hypotheses. We expected to find the PSF inhibitory effect in 2nd-grade school children, supporting the results found by Goikoetxea (2005), Luque et al (2013), and others about the early role of syllables in lexical access in Spanish (Álvarez, García-Saavedra, Luque and Taft, 2017;Jiménez, García, O'Shanahan, & Rojas, 2010). On the contrary, if the connections between words and syllabic structures increase with practice, as children's vocabulary grows, the inhibitory effect might be found only in older children.…”
supporting
confidence: 89%
“…In fact, after one year of learning to read a transparent language, children read with an accuracy of 95% (Seymour, Aro, & Erskine, 2003). Because of its transparent orthography, a clear understanding of the syllable boundaries in Spanish is established in the first years of literacy acquisition (Álvarez, García-Saavedra, Luque, & Taft, 2017). Syllables are fundamental units of processing in the Spanish language, being phonological sublexical units in visual word recognition (Álvarez, Carreiras, & Perea, 2004;Jiménez, García, O'Shanahan, & Rojas, 2010).…”
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confidence: 99%