Judith Rispens|Catherine McBride?Chang|P. H. Reitsma
Morphological awareness and early and advanced word recognition and spelling in Dutch
Chinese University of Hong Kong|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
study investigated relations three aspects morphological awareness word recognition spelling skills dutch speaking children tasks inflectional derivational morphology lexical compounding well measures phonological awareness vocabulary mathematics administered 104 first graders mean age 6 years 11 months 112 sixth graders mean age 12 years 1 month first grade children awareness noun morphology uniquely contributed word reading none morphological tasks uniquely associated spelling grade 6 derivational morphology contributed reading spelling achievement whereas awareness verb inflection uniquely explained spelling lexical compounding uniquely contribute literacy skills either grade findings suggest awareness inflectional derivational morphology may independently useful learning read spell dutch