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Articulation and phoneme awareness of 3-year-old children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Eleanor M. Thomas  and
Monique Sénéchal
Eleanor M. Thomas*
Affiliation:
Carleton University
Monique Sénéchal
Affiliation:
Carleton University
*
22 Findlay Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario KIS 2T9, Canada. Email: ethomas@ccs. carleton. ca
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Abstract

This report presents findings from the first phase of a longitudinal study examining the development of articulation quality and specific phoneme awareness during the fourth year of life. Articulation and phoneme awareness of /r/ and a control phoneme were assessed for 80 3-year-old children. Children whose articulation of /r/ was accurate for all items were contrasted with those who were accurate on none. The groups differed in their awareness of /r/, after controlling for awareness of the control phoneme on two of the three phoneme awareness tasks and after controlling for relevant cognitive variables. These findings support the hypothesis that accuracy of articulation is related to quality of phoneme awareness in young children.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1998 , pp. 363 - 391
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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