We report the associations between phonological awareness and orthographic knowledge
in readers of alphasyllabic Kannada. Less fluent 9-to 12-year-olds with lower orthographic …

Acquisition of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity are processes that are
central to early reading development in several languages. The language‐specific …

We report a training study that assesses whether teaching the pronunciation and meaning of
spoken words improves Chinese children's subsequent attempts to learn to read the words …

The notion that the ability to segment speech into its phonological units in an explicit
conscious manner, commonly termed phonological awareness, is related with learning to …

In this chapter, I attempt to provide a theoretical cognitive description of the connection
between phonological awareness and reading development across languages. The …

In Kannada, visual features are arranged in blocks called akshara, making this a visually
more complex writing system than typical alphabetic orthographies. Akshara knowledge was …

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit
their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy …

In this paper, we survey current evidence on cognitive precursors of reading in different
orthographies by reviewing studies with a cross-linguistic research design. Graphic symbol …

Although phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) are confirmed
as early predictors of reading in a large number of orthographies, it is as yet unclear whether …

Research has demonstrated that there is a strong relation between children's phonological
processing skills and their ability to learn to read an alphabetic orthography. It is unclear …