Children learn an untaught rule of spelling

Peter Bryant (), Terezinha Nunes and Rowena Snaith
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Peter Bryant: University of Oxford
Terezinha Nunes: Institute of Education, University of London
Rowena Snaith: University of Surrey

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6766, 157-158

Abstract: Abstract Children learn the rules of spelling (orthography) through teaching, and also by themselves through reading. The relative influence of these two kinds of learning is an important issue in the study of reading1,2, but it is hard to determine because children have both types of experience with most rules. Here we show that children can learn a sophisticated orthographic rule for themselves, without the help of teaching.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35003114

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