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SUBMITTER: Marinelli CV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4672065 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in psychology 20151208
We examined the spelling acquisition in children up to late primary school of a consistent orthography (Italian) and an inconsistent orthography (English). The effects of frequency, lexicality, length, and regularity in modulating spelling performance of the two groups were examined. English and Italian children were matched for both chronological age and number of years of schooling. Two-hundred and seven Italian children and 79 English children took part in the study. We found greater accuracy ...[more]