Steph Ainsworth|Stephen Welbourne|Anne Hesketh
Lexical restructuring in preliterate children: Evidence from novel measures of phonological representation
Manchester Metropolitan University|University of Manchester|University of Manchester
abstract substantial debate literature surrounding development childrens phonological representations prs although infant studies shown childrens representations contain fine phonetic detail consensus yet reached phonemic categories emerge study used novel implicit pr measures preschool children n 38 aged 3 years 6 months 4 years 6 months test predictions made competing accounts pr development measures designed probe pr segmentation phoneme rather phone level without requiring explicit awareness phonemes results provide evidence support vocabulary driven restructuring pr segmentation found related vocabulary controlling age