The Impact of the Position of Phonemes and Lexical Status on Phonological Awareness in the Diglossic Arabic Language

This study aimed at examining the impact of phonemes and lexical status on phonological manipulation among pre-school children. Specifically, we tested the impact of phonemic positions (initial vs. final) and lexical status (shared, spoken, standard and pseudo-words) on phonemic isolation performanc...

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Published in:Journal of psycholinguistic research 2019-10, Vol.48 (5), p.1051-1062
Main Authors: Asadi, Ibrahim A., Abu-Rabia, Salim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arabic language
Arabs
Awareness
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child, Preschool
Cognitive Psychology
Dialects
Diglossia
Female
Humans
Indo European Languages
Israel
Kindergarten
Language
Male
Phonemes
Phonemics
Phonetics
Phonological Awareness
Phonology
Preschool Children
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Semitic Languages
Speech Communication
Syllable structure
Syllables
Vocabulary
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Summary:This study aimed at examining the impact of phonemes and lexical status on phonological manipulation among pre-school children. Specifically, we tested the impact of phonemic positions (initial vs. final) and lexical status (shared, spoken, standard and pseudo-words) on phonemic isolation performance. Participants were 1012 children from the second year (K2) and third year (K2) in kindergarten. The results of the ANOVAs revealed significant effect of the phonemes’ position on the phonemic isolation performance whereas the performance was easier with the initial rather than the final phonemes. Also, the repeated measure analysis showed that the lexical status also impacts the phonemic isolation performance. The performance in pseudo-words was lower than all the others. However, the other clusters of real words did not differ. The results are discussed in the light of previous findings in the literature and of differences in the syllabic structures of the words that may influence phonological awareness.
ISSN:0090-6905
1573-6555
DOI:10.1007/s10936-019-09646-x