title: The development of phonological awareness in preschool children.
abstract: A short-term longitudinal study was carried out on a group of 67 preschool children. At three points in time over a 12-month period, the children were given tests measuring their syllable, rime, and phoneme awareness, speech and language skills, and letter knowledge. In general, children's rime skills developed earlier than their phoneme skills. Structural equation models showed that articulatory skills and syllable and rime awareness predicted later phoneme awareness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York, United Kingdom. j.carroll@psych.york.ac.uk
authors.forename: Julia M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: Margaret J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Snowling
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hulme
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stevenson
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary