Phonological neighbourhood density: effects in a rhyme awareness task in five-year-old children

• Published in: Journal of child language Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 695 - 710
• Main Authors: DE CARA, BRUNO, GOSWAMI, USHA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2003; Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Subjects: Adults; Age; Awareness; Beginning Reading; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child development; Child Language; Children; Developmental psychology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Language Acquisition; Language Tests - standards; Lexicon; Male; Mental lexicon; Metacognition; Phonation; Phonemes; Phonetics; Phonological Awareness; Phonology; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reading; Reading Acquisition; Rhyme; Studies; Syllables; Task Analysis; Vocabulary; Vocabulary development; Vocabulary learning; Young Children; United Kingdom > UK; Human; Preschool age; Language; Language development; Phonology; Cognition; Child; Phonological neighbourhood; Phonological awareness

Phonological awareness skills are critical for reading acquisition, yet relatively little is known about the origins of phonological awareness. This study investigates one plausible source of the emergence of phonological awareness, phonological neighbourhood density. As vocabulary grows, the number...