Spelling
are the findings that Wade-Woolley and Siegel obtained when they studied children for whom English was a second language. Although the second language speakers performed more poorly than the native speakers on tests of syntactic knowledge, phoneme deletio
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Spelling Edited by
REBECCA TREIMAN Department of Psychology, Wayne University, Detroit
Reprinted from Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 9, Nos. 5-6, December 1997
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-4998-8 ISBN 978-94-017-3054-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3054-9
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Contents
R. Treiman I Introduction to special issue on spelling
1
K. Nation I Children's sensitivity to rime unit frequency when spelling words and nonwords
7
R.P. Deavers and G.D.A. Brown I Rules versus analogies in children's spelling: Evidence for task dependence
25
W.H.J. van Bon and I.J.C.A.F. Uit De Haag I Difficulties with consonants in the spelling and segmentation of CCVCC pseudowords: Differences among Dutch first graders
49
L. Wade-Woolley and L.S. Siegel I The spelling performance of ESL and native speakers of English as a function of reading skill
73
V. Muter and M. Snowling I Grammar and phonology predict spelling in middle childhood
93
T. Nunes, P. Bryant and M. Bindman I Learning to spell regular and irregular verbs
113
C.K. Varnhagen, M. McCallum and M. Burstow I Is children's spelling naturally stage-like?
137
M. Dixon and Z. Kaminska I Is it misspelled or is it mispelled? The influence of fresh orthographic information on spelling
169
Ch. Barry and P. de Bastiani I Lexical priming of nonword spelling in the regular orthography of Italian
185
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9: 315-319, 1997. R. Treiman (ed.), Spelling, pp. [1-5] © 1997 KluwerAcademic Publishers.
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Introduction to special issue on spelling REBECCA TREIMAN
Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
This special issue of Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal focuses on one important aspect of writing, spelling. Just as one cannot be a fluent reader if one has to laboriously sound out each word, so one cannot be a fluent writer if one must puzzle over each spelling. Learning to spell accurately and automatically is an important part of learning to read and write, and brings with it valuable experience in analyzing the sounds and meanings of language. Despite the importance of writing and spelling, there has been less research on these topics than there has on reading. For example, research articles in psychological journals have many more references to 'reading' (a total of 18,359 from 1974 to early 1997, according to a PsycLit search) than to either 'writing' (5,140) or 'spelling' (1,993). The pu
