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Productive phonology and phonological awareness in preschool children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Penelope E. Webster  and
Amy Solomon Plante
Penelope E. Webster*
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire
Amy Solomon Plante*
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire
*
Department of Communication Disorders, Hewitt Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3538
Department of Communication Disorders, Hewitt Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3538
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Abstract

This article reports on a longitudinal examination of the relationship between productive phonological ability and phonological awareness in children under 6 years of age. This study followed 45 subjects with variant productive phonology levels from the mean age of 3;6 to 6;0. The Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis (KLPA) (Khan & Lewis, 1976), which ranks children from 0 to 4 on phonological process usage, was given at 6-month intervals, along with two measures of phonological awareness. Logit analysis showed that children with poor productive phonology, as measured by process usage, had a lower probability of meeting criterion on both of the phonological awareness measures. Further, a change in KLPA rank from poor to good speech predicted significant exponential increases in the probability of success on the two dependent variables. We concluded that, as a child matures in productive phonology, accompanying exponential growth in phonological awareness occurs.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 43 - 57
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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