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Exposure to Dialect Variation in an Artificial Language Prior to Literacy Training Impairs Reading of Words with Competing Variants but Does Not Affect Decoding Skills
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Williams, Glenn P.; Panayotov, Nikolay; Kempe, Vera – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Many bidialectal children grow up speaking a variety (e.g., a regional dialect) that differs from the variety in which they subsequently acquire literacy. Previous computational simulations and artificial literacy learning experiments with adults have demonstrated lower accuracy in reading "contrastive" words for which dialect variants…
Descriptors: Dialects, Bilingualism, Language Variation, Contrastive Linguistics