“…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).…”