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Sensorimotor Control of Speech and Children’s Reading Ability. / Bunt, Mark R. van den; Groen, Margriet A.; Frost, Steve et al.
In: Scientific Studies of Reading, Vol. 22, No. 6, 2018, p. 503-516.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensorimotor Control of Speech and Children’s Reading Ability
AU - Bunt, Mark R. van den
AU - Groen, Margriet A.
AU - Frost, Steve
AU - Lau, Airey
AU - Preston, Jonathan L.
AU - Gracco, Vincent L.
AU - Pugh, Kenneth R.
AU - Verhoeven, Ludo T. W.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Studies of the role of phonological representations in learning to read have almost exclusively focused on speech perception. In the current study, we examined links between sensorimotor control of speech, reading, and reading-related abilities. We studied two languages, English and Dutch, which vary in the regularity of their spelling-to-sound mappings. There were 236 American and Dutch children, 4 to 8 years old, who performed an altered auditory feedback task in which the first formant of the /ɛ/ vowel was altered. A stronger response to altered feedback for literate relative to preliterate children was observed, and this was particularly the case for the Dutch children. Moreover, the magnitude of the responses was related to precursors of reading in preliterate children and to reading skill in literate children. We propose that these findings could be related to changes in children's speech production skills that facilitate the integration of orthographic and phonemic information.
AB - Studies of the role of phonological representations in learning to read have almost exclusively focused on speech perception. In the current study, we examined links between sensorimotor control of speech, reading, and reading-related abilities. We studied two languages, English and Dutch, which vary in the regularity of their spelling-to-sound mappings. There were 236 American and Dutch children, 4 to 8 years old, who performed an altered auditory feedback task in which the first formant of the /ɛ/ vowel was altered. A stronger response to altered feedback for literate relative to preliterate children was observed, and this was particularly the case for the Dutch children. Moreover, the magnitude of the responses was related to precursors of reading in preliterate children and to reading skill in literate children. We propose that these findings could be related to changes in children's speech production skills that facilitate the integration of orthographic and phonemic information.
U2 - 10.1080/10888438.2018.1491583
DO - 10.1080/10888438.2018.1491583
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 503
EP - 516
JO - Scientific Studies of Reading
JF - Scientific Studies of Reading
SN - 1088-8438
IS - 6
ER -