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Lin, Candise Y.; Wang, Min; Shu, Hua – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The current study examined five- and seven-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's processing of lexical tones in relation to speech segments by varying onset and rime in an oddity task (onset±rime±). Results showed that children experienced more difficulty in lexical tone oddity judgment when rimes differed across monosyllables (e.g.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Difficulty Level
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Cassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L.; Putman, S. Michael – Reading Psychology, 2008
The theoretical and practical implications of examining young children's acquisitions of phonological awareness skills with specific and differentiated processing tasks are explored in this study. The study presents data from 269 kindergarten children completing a phonological awareness protocol that provided information on 14 discrete…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Literacy