title: Prosodic awareness skills and literacy acquisition in Spanish.
abstract: There has been very little research in Spanish on the potential role of prosodic skills in reading and spelling acquisition, which is the subject of the present study. A total of 85 children in 5th year of Primary Education (mean age 10 years and 9 months) performed tests assessing memory, stress awareness, phonological awareness, reading and spelling. In written language tests, errors were classified as phonological (grapheme-to-phoneme conversion rules) or stress-related (placement of the stress mark). Regression analyses showed that, once memory and phonological awareness were controlled, stress awareness partially explained reading and spelling performance as well as error type; however, differences were found between reading and spelling errors. These results show a relationship between prosodic skills--namely stress sensitivity--and the acquisition of reading and spelling skills that seems to be independent of phonological awareness skills.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. sdefior@ugr.es
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Defior
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez-Palma
authors.forename: María José
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cano-Marín
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*
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