Beyond Zebra: Preschoolers' Knowledge about Letters.

Treiman, Rebecca; Richmond-Welty, E. Daylene; Tincoff, Ruth

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ERIC Number: EJ557025

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Beyond Zebra: Preschoolers' Knowledge about Letters.

Treiman, Rebecca; Richmond-Welty, E. Daylene; Tincoff, Ruth

Applied Psycholinguistics, v18 n4 p391-409 Dec 1997

Argues that an important type of child knowledge about letters is knowledge of the phonological structure of the letters' names in English. Concludes that learning the alphabet forms the basis for generalizations about the structure of letter names. (22 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Analysis (Language), Letters (Alphabet), Phonology, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Psycholinguistics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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