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Introduction | p. 3 |
The Study | p. 4 |
The Sound System of English | p. 11 |
The Writing System of English | p. 21 |
Previous Research on Children's Spelling | p. 25 |
Spelling of Words | p. 39 |
Correct Spellings | p. 40 |
Legal Spellings | p. 48 |
Changes in Correct and Legal Spellings over the School Year | p. 53 |
Types of Words Attempted | p. 54 |
Adults' Ability to Interpret Legal Misspellings | p. 55 |
Summary of Findings | p. 58 |
Implications | p. 58 |
Spelling of Phonemes: Correct Spellings, Legal Substitutions, and Illegal Substitutions | p. 67 |
Correct Spellings | p. 70 |
Substitution Errors | p. 79 |
Summary of Findings | p. 86 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 87 |
Implications | p. 90 |
Vowels | p. 97 |
Children's Spellings of Vowel Phonemes | p. 98 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 112 |
Factors That Affect Children's Spellings of Vowels | p. 115 |
Implications | p. 122 |
Consonants | p. 128 |
Children's Spellings of Consonant Phonemes | p. 128 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 139 |
Factors That Affect Children's Spellings of Consonants | p. 144 |
Implications | p. 147 |
The Influence of Orthography on Children's Spelling of Vowels and Consonants | p. 152 |
Vowels and Consonants Conventionally Spelled with More Than One Letter | p. 152 |
Graphemic Alternations | p. 162 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 167 |
Implications | p. 171 |
Vowel Omissions | p. 175 |
Factors Associated with Vowel Omission Errors | p. 177 |
Factors Not Significantly Associated with Vowel Omission Errors | p. 188 |
Statistical Analyses | p. 191 |
Changes from First to Second Semester of the School Year | p. 192 |
Summary of Results | p. 193 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 193 |
Implications | p. 196 |
Consonant Omissions | p. 203 |
Factors Associated with Consonant Omission Errors | p. 204 |
Factors Not Significantly Associated with Consonant Omission Errors | p. 225 |
Statistical Analyses | p. 226 |
Changes from First to Second Semester of the School Year | p. 228 |
Summary of Results | p. 228 |
Comparison of Consonant Omissions and Vowel Omissions | p. 229 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 233 |
Implications | p. 240 |
Reversals | p. 246 |
Factors Associated with Reversals of Adjacent Phonemes | p. 247 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 255 |
Summary of Results | p. 256 |
Implications | p. 257 |
Inflected and Derived Words | p. 259 |
Children's Spellings of Inflected Words | p. 260 |
Children's Spellings of Derived Words | p. 271 |
Comparison with Results of Other Studies | p. 272 |
Summary and Implications | p. 274 |
Conclusions and Implications | p. 277 |
Classification of Spelling Errors | p. 277 |
Models of the Spelling Process | p. 278 |
Children's Phonological Systems | p. 281 |
What Kind of Writing System is Easiest to Learn? | p. 285 |
The Relation between Spelling and Reading | p. 287 |
The Teaching of Spelling | p. 288 |
Appendix I | p. 295 |
Appendix II | p. 329 |
Bibliography | p. 337 |
Glossary | p. 347 |
Author Index | p. 355 |
Subject Index | p. 359 |
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