What Happened to the "n" of Sink? Children's Spellings of Final Consonant Clusters.

Treiman, Rebecca; And Others

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Publication Date: 1995

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What Happened to the "n" of Sink? Children's Spellings of Final Consonant Clusters.

Treiman, Rebecca; And Others

Cognition, v55 n1 p1-38 Apr 1995

First graders listened to the pronunciation of single syllable nonsense words and were asked to spell the words. Results showed that, for nonsense words of the form consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant, in which the consonant following the vowel was a nasal or a liquid, children often omitted the second consonant in their spelling. (BC)

Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Phonemes, Phonology, Primary Education, Spelling, Syllables, Vowels

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