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Emilia Hawkey1, Matthew A Palmer1, Nenagh Kemp1
1School of Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
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Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021-2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence-initial words) and no-cue control words. High school (12-18 years, n = 59) and university students (18-63 years, n = 78) exhibited near-perfect capitalization. Primary school students (8-12 years) writing single words (n = 99) used proper-noun cues more than sentence-initial cues (ds > 0.49), but when writing consecutive words (n = 101), capitalized more accurately with two cues than one (ds > 0.32). Early capitalization appears better with more cues, but task format influences children's use of grammatical context.
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