Developmental dyslexia in an orthography of intermediate depth: the case of European Portuguese |
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Authors: | Ana Sucena São Luís Castro Philip Seymour |
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Institution: | 1. Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal 2. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educa??o da Universidade do Porto, Rua Doutor Manuel Pereira da Silva, 4200-392, Porto, Portugal 3. University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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Abstract: | Fifteen Portuguese children with dyslexia, aged 9–11 years, were compared with reading and chronological age controls with
respect to five indicators related to the phonological deficit hypothesis: the effects of lexicality, regularity, and length,
implicit and explicit phonological awareness, and rapid naming. The comparison between groups indicates that Portuguese children
with dyslexia have a phonological impairment which is revealed by a developmental deficit in implicit phonological awareness
and irregular word reading (where younger reading level controls performed better than dyslexics) and by a developmental delay
in decoding ability and explicit phonological awareness (where dyslexics matched reading level controls). These results are
discussed in relation to the idea that European Portuguese is written in an orthography of intermediate depth. |
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Keywords: | Developmental dyslexia Portuguese Phonological deficit |
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