phoneme deletion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphonemeanddeletion
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phoneme
noun[C]
uk/ˈfəʊ.niːm/us/ˈfoʊ.niːm/
one of the smallest units of speech that make one word different from ...
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deletion
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈliː.ʃən/us/dɪˈliː.ʃən/
the process of removing something, or what ...
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(Definition ofphonemeanddeletionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The results of thephonemedeletionand counting tasks provide further support for the importance of phonology.
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The initial and finalphonemedeletiontasks were then given, in counterbalanced order.
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Illiterates' ability to name letters was significantly related to phonological fluency and initialphonemedeletion.
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Thephonemedeletiontask consisted of nonsense syllables that become real words when one segment is removed.
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In addition, the children's performances in the phoneme counting andphonemedeletiontasks were significantly related to kana reading level, but not to age.
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Mean scores on thephonemedeletiontask were 14.6 for the odd items and 14.3 for the even items.
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In the specificphonemedeletiontask, the child was asked to delete a phoneme from each of 16 words.
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These included measures of word and nonword repetition, semantic and phonological fluency, rhyme identification, initialphonemedeletion, and various memory span tests.
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In two separate studies, the phoneme counting andphonemedeletionabilities of three groups of children were compared in pre- and posttests.
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In contrast, for spelling affixed words, letter knowledge in conjunction with syllable deletion,phonemedeletion, and onset detection accounts for a significant proportion of the unique variance.
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The means show a pattern very similar to thephonemedeletiontask.
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The results showed that a sound isolation task combined with aphonemedeletiontask accounted for the greatest variance (62%), and no other tasks contributed significantly to the regression equation.
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Literacy significantly improved performance on phonological fluency and initialphonemedeletiontasks.
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The tests were administered in standard order: phoneme judgment (initial position for 20 items and final position),phonemedeletion(initial and final positions), and phoneme substitution (initial and final positions).
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The children completed twophonemedeletiontasks.
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The inadequacy of phonological representations in dyslexia is typically revealed using "awareness" tasks, in which segments must be explicitly manipulated in tasks such asphonemedeletion.
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Scarborough et al. (1998) reported that eighth graders' errors inphonemedeletionand counting tasks almost always consisted of removing a portion larger than a single phoneme and undercounting phonemes.
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