TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphological spelling in spite of phonological deficits
T2 - Evidence from children with dyslexia and otitis media
AU - Breadmore, Helen
AU - Carroll, Julia M.
PY - 2016/11
Y1 - 2016/11
N2 - The present study examines whether literacy or phonological impairment affects use of morphological spelling constancy; the principle that morphemes are spelled consistently across words. Children with dyslexia or otitis media (OM) were compared to chronological-age matched children and reading-ability matched children. Monomorphemic and polymorphemic nonwords were spelled in a sentence completion dictation task. Use of root and suffix morphemes increased with age in typical development, particularly derivational morphemes. Dyslexic children generally used morphological strategies less than their chronological-age matched peers but to a similar extent as reading-ability matched. OM children showed a specific weakness in using inflectional suffixes. Results suggest different causes for the spelling difficulties in each case: dyslexic children had difficulties in generalising more complex morphological relationships, while the OM children’s difficulties had a phonological/perceptual basis.
AB - The present study examines whether literacy or phonological impairment affects use of morphological spelling constancy; the principle that morphemes are spelled consistently across words. Children with dyslexia or otitis media (OM) were compared to chronological-age matched children and reading-ability matched children. Monomorphemic and polymorphemic nonwords were spelled in a sentence completion dictation task. Use of root and suffix morphemes increased with age in typical development, particularly derivational morphemes. Dyslexic children generally used morphological strategies less than their chronological-age matched peers but to a similar extent as reading-ability matched. OM children showed a specific weakness in using inflectional suffixes. Results suggest different causes for the spelling difficulties in each case: dyslexic children had difficulties in generalising more complex morphological relationships, while the OM children’s difficulties had a phonological/perceptual basis.
UR - https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/morphological-spelling-in-spite-of-phonological-deficits-evidence-from-children-with-dyslexia-and-otitis-media(dcce2cd9-e77f-497e-a264-b4271968f97b).html
U2 - 10.1017/S0142716416000072
DO - 10.1017/S0142716416000072
M3 - Article
SN - 0142-7164
VL - 37
SP - 1439
EP - 1460
JO - Applied Psycholinguistics
JF - Applied Psycholinguistics
IS - 6
ER -