Vassiliki Diamanti|Argyro Benaki|Angeliki Mouzaki|Asimina M. Ralli|Faye Antoniou|Sophia Papaioannou|Athanassios Protopapas
Development of early morphological awareness in Greek: Epilinguistic versus metalinguistic and inflectional versus derivational awareness
University of Crete|University of Oslo|The American College of Greece|University of Crete|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|University of Crete|University of Oslo|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
abstract crosssectional study examined development morphological awareness greek children 47 years old distinction adopted epilinguistic control evidenced judgment tasks indicative elementary levels awareness metalinguistic awareness evidenced production tasks indicative fullblown conscious awareness morphological domains inflectional derivational morphology specifically contrasted determine whether follow distinct developmental trajectories triallevel performance data 236 children four morphological awareness tasks function age modeled using generalized additive models significant performance increase age found four awareness tasks results indicated production derivational morphemes consistently difficult production inflectional morphemes judgment derivational morphemes whereas differences two inflectional two judgment tasks significant suggests ages epilinguistic control similarly effective two morphological domains whereas full metalinguistic awareness derivational morphology trails behind inflectional morphology least measured specific tasks findings highlight need early tracking finer distinctions within domain morphological awareness identify potentially enhance critical skills related development vocabulary reading comprehension