Individual differences in subphonemic sensitivity and phonological skills.

ABSTRACT: Many studies have established a link between phonological abilities (indexed by phonological awareness and phonological memory tasks) and typical and atypical reading development. Individuals who perform poorly on phonological assessments have been mostly assumed to have underspecified (or "fuzzy") phonological representations, with typical phonemic categories, but with greater category overlap due to imprecise encoding. An alternative posits that poor readers have overspecified phonological representations, with speech sounds perceived allophonically (phonetically distinct variants of a single phonemic category). On both accounts, mismatch between phonological categories and orthography leads to reading difficulty. Here, we consider the implications of these accounts for onl

SUBMITTER: Li MYC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701851 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature