Marie Line Bosse|Sylviane Valdois|Marie?Josèphe Tainturier
Analogy without priming in early spelling development
Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition|Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition|Bangor University
article reports three experimentsinvestigating use analogies spellingacquisition french children spelledpseudowords dictation werephonological neighbours words uncommonendings eg daby derived dbutdeby frequent use uncommongraphemes neighbour pseudowords incontrol pseudowords taken evidence forspelling analogy experiment 1 ananalogy effect observed grades 3 5younger children use analogies butthey also unable spell referencewords experiments 2 3 introduced areference word learning phase prior thepseudoword dictation task analogy effectwas found second graders experiment 2 andeven first graders experiment 3 whenchildren knew spell referencewords comparable use analogies observedin children comparable lexical knowledgeindependently grade level oralphabetic skills results suggest thatchildren establish specific orthographicknowledge beginning literacyacquisition use knowledge generatenew word spellings soon isavailable