How granularity of orthography-phonology mappings affect reading development : evidence from a computational model of English word reading and spelling
It is widely held that children implicitly learn the structure of their writing system through statistical learning of spelling-tosound mappings. Yet an unresolved question is how to sequence reading experience so that children can ‘pick up’ the structure optimally. We tackle this question here usin...
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Language: | English |
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2021
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Online Access: | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-Granularity-of-Orthography-Phonology-Mappings-a-Lim-O'Brien/6e1f581e69718738ffa8c4a5ad7468280df4d9a3#extracted https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146263 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |
Summary: | It is widely held that children implicitly learn the structure of their writing system through statistical learning of spelling-tosound mappings. Yet an unresolved question is how to sequence reading experience so that children can ‘pick up’ the structure optimally. We tackle this question here using a computational model of encoding and decoding. The order of presentation of words was manipulated so that they exhibited two distinct progressions of granularity of spelling-to-sound mappings. We found that under a training regime that introduced written words progressively from small-to-large granularity, the network exhibited an early advantage in reading acquisition as compared to a regime introducing written words from large-to-small granularity. Our results thus provide support for the grain size theory (Ziegler and Goswami, 2005) and demonstrate that the order of learning can influence learning trajectories of literacy skills. |
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