Spelling / edited by Rebecca Treiman.

The chapters in this volume focus on one important aspect of writing: spelling. There has been much less research on spelling and writing than on reading, and these papers represent an attempt to restore the balance. The papers, by some of the leading researchers in the field, provide an excellent s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Treiman, Rebecca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to special issue on spelling / Rebecca Treiman
  • Children's sensitivity to rime unit frequency when spelling words and nonwords / Kate Nation
  • Rules versus analogies in children's spelling : evidence for task dependence / Rachael P. Deavers and Gordon D.A. Brown
  • Difficulties with consonants in the spelling and segmentation of CCVCC pseudowords : differences among Dutch first graders / Wim H.J. Van Bon and Inge J.C.A.F. Uit De Haag
  • The spelling performance of ESL and native speakers of English as a function of reading skill / Lesly Wade-Woolley and Linda S. Siegel
  • Grammar and phonology predict spelling in middle childhood / Valerie Muter and Margaret Snowling
  • Learning to spell regular and irregular verbs / Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant, Miriam Bindman
  • Is children's spelling naturally stage-like? / Connie K. Varnhagen, Michelle McCallum and Meridith Burstow
  • Is it misspelled or is it mispelled? : the influence of fresh orthographic information on spelling / Maureen Dixon and Zofia Kaminska
  • Lexical priming of nonword spelling in the regular orthography of Italian / Christopher Barry and Pierluigi De Bastiani.