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The role of sublexical variables in reading fluency development among Spanish children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Marta ÁLVAREZ-CAÑIZO ,
Paz SUÁREZ-COALLA  and
Fernando CUETOS
Marta ÁLVAREZ-CAÑIZO*
Affiliation:
Departament of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Paz SUÁREZ-COALLA
Affiliation:
Departament of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Fernando CUETOS
Affiliation:
Departament of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Pza Feijóo s/n, Oviedo 33003, Spain. E-mail: alvarezcanmarta@uniovi.es
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Abstract

Several studies have found that, after repeated exposure to new words, children form orthographic representations that allow them to read those words faster and more fluently. However, these studies did not take into account variables related to the words. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of sublexical variables on the formation of orthographic representations of words by Spanish children. The first experiment used pseudo-words of varying syllabic structure and syllabic frequency. The stimuli for the second experiment were formed with or without context-dependent graphemes. We found that formation of orthographic representations was influenced by syllabic structure (easier for words with simple syllabic structure) and the context-dependency of graphemes (easier in the absence of context-dependent graphemes), but not syllabic frequency. These results indicate that the easier it is to read a word, the easier it is to form an orthographic representation of it.

Keywords

orthographic representationscontext-dependent graphemessyllabic frequency and syllabic structure
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , July 2018 , pp. 858 - 877
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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