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Phonological Awareness and Its Roles in Learning to Read and Spell

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Phonological Awareness in Reading

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In many cases, a program of research originates through the influence of a few special people. For me, the special people who first inspired my interest in phonological awareness, reading, and spelling were Alvin and Isabelle Liberman. Alvin Liberman, who was my teacher when I was an undergraduate linguistics major at Yale University from 1972 to 1976, introduced me to this fascinating area of research. Under his direction, I carried out a study of syllable and phoneme awareness among schoolchildren in New Haven, Connecticut. This study touched on many of the issues that continue to interest me, including whether some linguistic units are more accessible than others and the nature of the relationship between phonological awareness and reading. When I entered graduate school in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, I was fortunate to find an advisor—Jonathan Baron—who nurtured my interest in the psychology of reading and who helped me to expand my research skills. Without the influence of Alvin and Isabelle Liberman and Jonathan Baron, the program of research that I describe in this chapter would not have been possible.

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  1. Middle Tennessee State Univesity, 37132, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

    Diane J. Sawyer Ph.D. (Katherine Davis Murfree Professor of Dyslexic Studies) (Katherine Davis Murfree Professor of Dyslexic Studies)

  2. School of Education and Psychology, North Carolina State University, 27695, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

    Barbara J. Fox Ph.D.

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Treiman, R. (1991). Phonological Awareness and Its Roles in Learning to Read and Spell. In: Sawyer, D.J., Fox, B.J. (eds) Phonological Awareness in Reading. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 28. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3010-6_6

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