Volume 09, Summer 1983

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9, Summer 1983
(University of Calgary, 1983-06) Pepper, Mary; Phillips, Marilyn; Rowsell, Lorna; Steinbergs, Aleks
This is the ninth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at The University of Calgary. These papers represent the current research in progress of students and faculty members and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. Appearance of papers in this volume does not preclude their publication in another form elsewhere.
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Graphic competence
(University of Calgary, 1983-06) Gibbons, Diana E
The invented spellings of pre-schoolers first described and analyzed by Read (1971) are significant in more than one respect. First, they are completely spontaneous and entirely free from the effects of instruction. The children who produce invented spellings know the names of the conventional symbols and how to form them, but they have virtually no direct knowledge of any conventional sound-grapheme correspondences and cannot read. Second, the spellings do not vary qualitatively from child to child. Thirdly, as previously mentioned, these children have not yet learned to read (hence the use of the term 'preliterate').