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Theories of Reading Development
Edited by Kate Cain, Donald L. Compton and Rauno K. Parrila
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 15] 2017
► pp. 169–190

Orthographic learning is verbal learning

The role of spelling pronunciations

| University of Copenhagen
| University of Amsterdam
Article outline
  • Learning the segments of speech
  • Letter-sound learning
  • Learning written sounds well enough to recall them
  • Learning spelling pronunciations
    • Beginning word recognition via spelling pronunciations
    • Spelling pronunciations in the mental lexicon
    • Learning the dialect of spelling pronunciations
    • Problems in learning spelling pronunciations
  • Spelling pronunciations and sight word reading
  • Conclusion and future directions
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.15.10elb
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