Jacqueline Leybaert
Phonology Acquired through the Eyes and Spelling in Deaf Children
Université Libre de Bruxelles
hearing deaf children ranging age 6 years 8 months 14 years 4 months matched general spelling level required spell highfrequency lowfrequency words interest performance relation degree exposure cued speech cs system delivering phonetically augmented speechreading visual modality groups hearing children b deaf children exposed early intensively cs home cshome c deaf children exposed cs later school csschool spelling productions hearing children well cshome children phonologically accurate highfrequency well lowfrequency words csschool children less specified phonological representations made lower proportion phonologically accurate spellings findings indicate accuracy phonological representations independent modality acoustic versus visual spoken language perceived determines acquisition phonologytoorthography mappings analyses spelling productions indicate acquisition orthographic representations high precision depends fully specified phonological representations