Effects of consistency and age of acquisition on reading and spelling among developing readers

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age of acquisition, consistency, dyslexia, reading, regularity, spelling, VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION, OF-ACQUISITION, FEEDBACK CONSISTENCY, LEXICAL DECISION, SOUND CONSISTENCY, CUMULATIVE-FREQUENCY, 2-WAY STREET, REGULARITY, CHILDRENS, ALOUD

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Effects of consistency and age of acquisition on reading and spelling among developing readers. / Weekes, Brendan Stuart; Castles, Anne E.; Davies, Robert A. .
In: Reading and Writing, Vol. 19, No. 2, 03.2006, p. 133-169.

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title = "Effects of consistency and age of acquisition on reading and spelling among developing readers",

abstract = "Three experiments investigated the effects of rime consistency on reading and spelling among developing readers ranging in age from 7 to 11 years. Experiment 1 found that children read words with inconsistent feedforward mappings between orthography and phonology (O -> P) less accurately than consistent words. OP consistency interacted with chronological age, word frequency and age-of-acquisition (AoA). The effect of OP consistency on reading was larger for younger children than for older children and OP consistency had an effect for low frequency words and late-acquired words only. Experiment 2 found an effect of feedforward consistency between phonology and orthography (P -> O) on children's spelling but no interaction between PO consistency and AoA. Experiment 3 showed that the effects of feedforward consistency are independent of feedback consistency. Our results challenge models of reading and spelling that assume feedforward consistency effects are influenced by the frequency of exposure to words only and we suggest that interactions between consistency and AoA depends on the ratio of consistent to inconsistent OP mappings.",

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author = "Weekes, {Brendan Stuart} and Castles, {Anne E.} and Davies, {Robert A.}",

year = "2006",

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doi = "10.1007/s11145-005-2032-6",

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