Syllable Structure and Orthographic Complexity of Pinyin in Chinese Children's Chinese Phoneme Deletion Task/LA STRUCTURE SYLLABIQUE ET LA COMPLEXITÉ ORTHOGRAPHIQUE DE PINYIN DANS LA SUPPRESSION DE DEVOIRS PHONÉTIQUES DES ENFANTS CHINOIS
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Abstract
Abstract: The study looked into the effect of medial vowels in the measurement of Chinese phonological awareness. The results show children perform differently in the presence or absence of medial vowels. Specifically, third graders tended to delete medial vowel along with the initial consonant; the same trend was not found with fifth graders, who were successful at isolating the initial consonant. Differences between different types of rimes containing medial vowel letters were also found. This developmental trend needs to be considered in the design of Chinese phonological awareness tasks for Chinese children. Key words: Chinese phonological awareness; medial vowel Resume: L'etude s'est penchee sur l'effet des voyelles medianes dans la mesure de la conscience phonologique chinoise. Les resultats montrent que les enfants se comportent differemment en presence ou en absence de voyelles medianes. Plus precisement, les eleves en troisieme annee tentent a supprimer les voyelles medianes avec la consonne initiale, alors que la meme tendance n'a pas ete trouvee chez les eleves en cinquieme annee, qui ont reussi a isoler la consonne initiale. Les differences entre de differents types de rime contenant des voyelles medianes ont ete egalement trouvees. Cette tendance de developpement doit etre pris en consideration dans la conception des devoirs de la conscience phonologique chinoise pour les enfants chinois. Mots-Cles: la conscience phonologique chinoise; voyelles medianes 1. INTRODUCTION Phonological awareness has been a hot topic in the past thirty years, not only for teachers and parents but also educational and developmental psychologists. The close ties between phonological awareness and English word reading acquisition found by Bradley & Bryant (1983) triggered an explosion of studies on the relation between phonological awareness and reading acquisition and studies on characteristics and development of phonological awareness sub-skills, such as syllables, onsets-rimes, and phonemes. One of the major factors that shape the development of phonological awareness is linguistic structures (Caravolas & Bruck 1993), which started a whole round of studies on the development of phonological awareness in bilingual children (Durgunoglu & Oney 1999). Among all the sub-skills or tasks used in the measurement of phonological awareness, phoneme awareness is probably the single most important one. For instance, in a phoneme deletion task, a test of phonemic awareness requires children to articulate what is left of a word if a syllable initial, middle or final consonant is removed, for example, in the word cat, when the initial consonant is removed, only at is left; when the same sound is removed in the word six, what is left is /sis/. Actually, this task is better named consonant deletion task because it is usually the consonant that is deleted. Phoneme deletion skills are closely related to English word reading skills for primary school children (Perfetti et al 1987). It is the most predictive of English word reading for 8-9 year old English children (Huang & Hanley 1995) and for Chinese children living in English rich environment (Gottardo et al 2001). In recent years, as more and more studies are being conducted on children living in mainland China where English is still taught as a foreign language, the importance of Chinese phonological awareness for Chinese and English literacy acquisition is being acknowledged too (for example, Chen & Chen 2008). However, there has not been any systematic study on the effect of the linguistic structure of Chinese language on the development of Chinese phonological awareness. This study is such an attempt. 1.1 Chinese syllable structure and phoneme awareness tasks The attempt to study the effect of Chinese pinyin structure on phonological awareness originates from the orthographic depth theory proposed by Seymour, Aro and Erskine (2003). …
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