The aim of this study was two-fold. First to find out whether the prelexical phonological route
develops prior to the visual route or whether the direct visual route develops first in the …

A selective review is presented of empirical evidence from different languages concerning
phonological development and reading development in children. It is demonstrated that the …

This article is concerned with aspects of phonological processing and linguistic awareness
that may set the stage for initial reading development. The aims are first to provide a current …

Nine‐year‐old children were presented with reading tasks in which psycholinguistic
properties of words were manipulated. Although word imageability affected reading …

ABSTRACTS This study tested a hypothesis about the growth of word knowledge in
kindergarten/first‐grade readers. It was predicted that (a) phoneme awareness develops in …

The aim of this study was to examine the processing strategies used in word reading and
spelling by first grade Greek children who were either normal or low achievers in literacy …

Seymour & Elder (1986) investigated the reading of children in the first year of school and
suggested that the first stage of learning to read shows little involvement of assembled …

The development of phonological and orthographic processing was studied from the middle
of Grade 1 to the end of Grade 4 (age 6; 6–10 years) using the effects of regularity and of …

This chapter presents a review of empirical research about the role of phonological and
cognitive factors in reading and spelling Greek orthography. Although spoken Greek has …

When beginning to learn to read or to spell, children relying on the spoken language they
already know, would have to learn only a limited set of correspondences between …