Bruno De Cara|Usha Goswami
Phonological neighbourhood density: effects in a rhyme awareness task in five-year-old children
Université Côte d'Azur|University of Cambridge
phonological awareness skills critical reading acquisition yet relatively little known origins phonological awareness study investigates one plausible source emergence phonological awareness phonological neighbourhood density vocabulary grows number similarsounding words childs mental lexicon increases could create developmental pressure develop awareness subunits within words syllables rhymes phonemes case neighbourhood density effects discernible phonological awareness tasks children successful tasks words dense phonological neighbourhoods show greater awareness subunits within words investigated hypothesis group 48 fiveyearold children prereaders fiveyearolds high vocabulary age showed neighbourhood density effects rhyme oddity task fiveyearolds lower vocabulary ages suggests vocabulary acquisition consequent neighbourhood density effects indeed one source emergence phonological awareness skills prereaders