A complete system of learning spelling-tophoneme conversion of English words consists of three major processes: alignment, mapping learning, and grapheme generation. Such a system can be used to construct prototypes of reading machines for English or other lan­ guages quickly and automatically. This paper focusses on the alignment process, which is crit­ ical to mapping learning and grapheme ge...

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Three experiments of pseudoword reading assessed whether stress assignment affects reading aloud at the level of articulation planning. In Experiment 1 (immediate reading) both stimulus length (in syllables) and stress type affected reading latency and accuracy. Italian pseudowords were named faster and more accurately when they were assigned stress on the antepenultimate rather than on the pen...

Preschool teachers’ read-aloud and writing practices were investigated using a questionnaire about how activities planned organized, what their purpose was. The results indicate that early literacy not systematically. Most of the preschool teachers (77%) reported having storybook read-alouds at least three times per week. A large minority (45.5%) never or seldom activities, rarely in play. main...