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Anne Bauch¹, Claudia K Friedrich¹, Ulrike Schild¹

¹Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.

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Preschoolers trained in phonemic awareness and letter knowledge showed enhanced spoken word processing. Explicit phonemic training improved early speech sound perception in young children.

Keywords:

children event-related potentials phonemic awareness training precursors of reading acquisition speech processing

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Area of Science:

Cognitive psychology
Developmental psychology
Neuroscience

Background:

Phonemic awareness and grapheme knowledge are crucial precursors to reading acquisition.
Disentangling their specific roles in spoken word recognition is essential for understanding reading development.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the distinct contributions of phonemic awareness and grapheme knowledge to spoken word recognition in preschoolers.
To examine the impact of explicit phonemic and grapheme training on early speech processing.

Main Methods:

A training study involving three groups of preschoolers: phonemic training, phonemic plus grapheme training, and a non-linguistic control group.
Event-related potentials (ERPs) and decision latencies were used to assess spoken word processing sensitivity to phonemic variation.
A group of young adults participated for comparison with experienced readers.

Main Results:

All groups demonstrated fine-grained spoken word processing, as indicated by decision latencies.
Event-related potentials revealed that both phonemic training groups processed phonemic variations with greater detail than the control group and young adults.
Early stages of speech processing showed enhanced sensitivity to phonemic variation in trained preschool groups.

Conclusions:

Explicit phonemic training enhances implicit speech processing in preschoolers.
The findings suggest temporal plasticity in speech processing during early development.
Targeted phonemic instruction can significantly benefit early reading precursor skills.