Development and Prediction of Context-Dependent Vowel Pronunciation in Elementary Readers
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Steacy, Laura M., Compton, Donald, Petscher, Yaacov, Elliott, James D., Smith, Kathryn, Rueckl, Jay G., Sawi, Oliver, Frost, Stephen J. and Pugh, Kenneth R.. (2019). Development and Prediction of Context-Dependent Vowel Pronunciation in Elementary Readers. Scientific Studies of Reading. 23(1), pp. 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2018.1466303
Authors | Steacy, Laura M., Compton, Donald, Petscher, Yaacov, Elliott, James D., Smith, Kathryn, Rueckl, Jay G., Sawi, Oliver, Frost, Stephen J. and Pugh, Kenneth R. |
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Abstract | As children learn to read, they become sensitive to context-dependent vowel pronunciations in words, considered a form of statistical learning. The work of Treiman and colleagues demonstrated that readers’ vowel pronunciations depend on the consonantal context in which the vowel occurs and reading experience. Using explanatory item-response models we examined child- and nonword-factors associated with children’s assignment of more versus less frequent grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPC) to vowel pronunciations as a function of rime coda in monosyllabic nonwords. Students (N = 96) in grades 2-5 read nonwords in which more versus less frequent vowel GPCs were wholly supported or partially favored by the rime unit. Use of less frequent vowel GPCs was predicted by set for variability, word reading, and rime support for the context-dependent vowel pronunciation. We interpret the results within a developmental word reading model in which initially incomplete and oversimplified GPC representations become more context dependent with reading experience. |
Keywords | reading; early childhood; statistical learning; grapheme-phoneme correspondences; context dependent vowel pronunciation; vowel pronunciation; nonword factors; elementary readers |
Year | 01 Jan 2019 |
Journal | Scientific Studies of Reading |
Journal citation | 23 (1), pp. 49-63 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1088-8438 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2018.1466303 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888438.2018.1466303 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 49-63 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 15 May 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 31 Jul 2024 |
Additional information | © 2018 Society for the Scientific Study of Reading |
Place of publication | United States |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90vy2/development-and-prediction-of-context-dependent-vowel-pronunciation-in-elementary-readers
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