| Number | 413 |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Drawer | 7 |
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| Entry Date | 11/19/1999 |
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| Authors | Ognjenovic, V., Lukatela, G., Feldman, L. B., & Turvey, M. T. |
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| Publication | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 35A, 97-109. |
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| Abstract | Errors in reading aloud by the beginning reader have been interpreted as reflecting the difficulty and the importance of phonemic segmentation for the acquisition of reading skills. Previous studies of English words patterned as CVC showed more errors on vowels vs consonants and on word final consonants vs word initial consonants; the data suggested that consonant errors were based on phonetic confusions, while vowel errors were not. In contrast to their English counterparts, the 65 1st-grade beginning readers of Serbo-Croatian tested in the present study committed proportionally fewer errors on their reading of vowels than of consonants; in common with their English counterparts, their reading of final consonants was more vulnerable to error than their reading of initial consonants. This pattern of errors was found for both word and pseudoword CVC structures, and the pattern of vowel confusion, like the pattern of consonant confusions, was rationalized by speech-related factors. The differences between the patterns of confusions for Serbo-Croatian and for English may be due to the difference between the 2 orthographies or to the fact that the vowels of English are qualitatively less distinct phonologically than the vowels of Serbo-Croatian. |
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