NDLI: Metalexical Awareness: Development, Methodology or Written Language? A Cross-linguistic Comparison

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Author	Kurvers, Jeanne Uri, Helene
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	This study explores the ability to access word boundaries of pre-school children, using an on-line methodology (Karmiloff-Smith, Grant, Sims, Jones, & Cockle (1996). Cognition, 58, 197–219.), which has hardly been used outside English-speaking countries. In a cross-linguistic study in the Netherlands and Norway, four and five-year-old children were asked to repeat the last word every time a narrator stopped reading a story. In total 32 target-words were used, both closed and open class words, and both monosyllabic and disyllabic words. The outcomes in both countries were different from those of the original English study (Karmiloff-Smith et al., 1996): four- and five-year-olds were successful in only about 26% of the cases, whereas the success rate in the former English experiment was 75% for the younger and 96% for the older children. No differences were found between age groups and between open and closed class words. This methodology does reveal the ability to access word boundaries, but probably not because of the ease of the on-line methodology in itself, but rather because literacy introduces new representations of language, even in on-line processing. The outcomes implicate that the ability to mark word boundaries does not seem to be a valid indication of who is ready for reading.
Starting Page	353
Ending Page	367
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00906905
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15736555
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-05-23
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Metalexical awareness Linguistic awareness Literacy Word boundaries On-line methodology Cognitive Psychology Psychology Psycholinguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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