Effects of Morphology on Children's Spelling of Final Consonant Clusters |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Neurocognitive Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Münster, Germany;1. Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA |
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| Abstract: | Most research on children's spelling has emphasized the role of phonological or sound-based processes. We asked whether morphology plays a part in early spelling by examining how children write words with final consonant clusters. In three experiments, children made different patterns of omission errors on the last two consonants of words such astunedandbars,in which the consonants belong to different morphemes, and words such asbrandandMars,in which the consonants belong to the same morpheme. These differences emerged even among children reading at the first-grade level. Effects of morphology appeared whether children spelled single words to dictation (Experiments 1 and 3), finished partially completed spellings (Experiment 2), or wrote sentences containing specified words (Experiment 3). Children did not use morphological relations among words as much as they could have, given their knowledge of the stems, but they did use them to some extent. Although phonology plays an important role in early spelling, young children can also use other sources of information, including certain morphological relationships among words. |
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