Spoken vocabulary growth: Its role in the development of phoneme awareness and early reading ability

@article{citeulike:2474916, abstract = {In this paper, two theoretical positionsregarding the developmental origins of thephoneme as a unit for lexical representationand processing are outlined – theaccessibility and emergent positions. OurLexical Restructuring Model (Metsala \& Walley1998), which is consistent with the secondposition, focuses on the role of vocabularygrowth in prompting the implementation of morefine-grained, segmental representations forlexical items in childhood; this restructuringis viewed as an important precursor to theexplicit segmentation or phoneme awarenessskills implicated in early reading success.Empirical evidence that supports this model issummarized, including preliminary results fromone of our most recent studies. Severalsuggestions are made for future research thatwill lead to a better understanding of thedevelopment of spoken word recognition and thelinks between speech- and reading-relatedabilities.}, author = {Walley, Amanda C. and Metsala, Jamie L. and Garlock, Victoria M. }, citeulike-article-id = {2474916}, doi = {10.1023/A:1021789804977}, journal = {Reading and Writing}, keywords = {733speech, age\_of\_acquisition, development, frequency, integration, intermodal\_learning, language\_organization, lexical\_density, phonemes, reading, speech}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {5--20}, posted-at = {2008-03-05 19:41:54}, priority = {0}, title = {Spoken vocabulary growth: Its role in the development of phoneme awareness and early reading ability}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021789804977}, volume = {16}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2474916 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2474916 TI - Spoken vocabulary growth: Its role in the development of phoneme awareness and early reading ability JF - Reading and Writing VL - 16 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 20 N2 - In this paper, two theoretical positionsregarding the developmental origins of thephoneme as a unit for lexical representationand processing are outlined – theaccessibility and emergent positions. OurLexical Restructuring Model (Metsala & Walley1998), which is consistent with the secondposition, focuses on the role of vocabularygrowth in prompting the implementation of morefine-grained, segmental representations forlexical items in childhood; this restructuringis viewed as an important precursor to theexplicit segmentation or phoneme awarenessskills implicated in early reading success.Empirical evidence that supports this model issummarized, including preliminary results fromone of our most recent studies. Severalsuggestions are made for future research thatwill lead to a better understanding of thedevelopment of spoken word recognition and thelinks between speech- and reading-relatedabilities. KW - 733speech KW - age_of_acquisition KW - development KW - frequency KW - integration KW - intermodal_learning KW - language_organization KW - lexical_density KW - phonemes KW - reading KW - speech AU - Walley, Amanda AU - Metsala, Jamie AU - Garlock, Victoria PY - 2003/02/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021789804977 ER -