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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Educational psychology

Background:

  • Set for variability (SfV) is an oral language task assessing the ability to detect pronunciation discrepancies in irregular words.
  • SfV performance predicts word reading variance beyond phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge, and vocabulary.
  • Little is known about child characteristics and word features influencing SfV item performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if phonology-only features explain SfV performance variance.
  • To determine if phonology-orthography connections explain additional variance in SfV performance.
  • To explore the role of child characteristics and word features in SfV item performance.

Main Methods:

  • Administered the SfV task (75 items) to 489 children in grades 2-5.
  • Collected data using a battery of reading, reading-related, and language measures.
  • Analyzed item-level variance using phonological and phonology-orthography predictors.

Main Results:

  • SfV performance variance is uniquely explained by phonological skill measures and phonology-orthography associations.
  • The influence of these predictors is more pronounced in children with stronger decoding skills.
  • Word reading skill moderates the impact of other predictors on SfV performance.

Conclusions:

  • Both phonological skill and knowledge of phonology-orthography associations are crucial for SfV performance.
  • Decoding ability plays a significant role in how children approach and perform on the SfV task.
  • Understanding these factors can inform interventions for reading development.