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Phoneme awarenesstask - measure of quality of phonological representations

The quality of phonological representation (QPR) influences performance on tasks of phonological awareness (PA) and can be used as its measure. Recent studies agree that QPR maybe assessed byproduction accuracy, speech-sound perception and phonological processing. This paper describes the development of a phoneme awareness task (PhA) for /r/ in Croatian. The PhA task (type: Odd-one- out) was administered as part of a larger battery to 600 children aged 3-7. The stimuli were sets of three nonsense words differing in theinitial consonant or the syllabic /r/. Thetask is developmentally sensitive, withthe oldest participants obtainingthe highest scores. The best masteredcontrast is /r-j/, followed by /r-l/ and /r-ʋ/. A higher correct score was found for strings in which /r/ is not the odd one.The differences between the organization of existing and new phonological knowledge is discussed.

Phonological representations ; phonological awareness ; phoneme awareness task

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