caa a22 4500 467938423 CHVBK 20180406153004.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-006-9019-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-006-9019-6 Metalexical Awareness: Development, Methodology or Written Language? A Cross-linguistic Comparison [Elektronische Daten] [Jeanne Kurvers, Helene Uri] This study explores the ability to access word boundaries of pre-school children, using an on-line methodology (Karmiloff-Smith, Grant, Sims, Jones, & Cockle (1996). Cognition, 58, 197-219.), which has hardly been used outside English-speaking countries. In a cross-linguistic study in the Netherlands and Norway, four and five-year-old children were asked to repeat the last word every time a narrator stopped reading a story. In total 32 target-words were used, both closed and open class words, and both monosyllabic and disyllabic words. The outcomes in both countries were different from those of the original English study (Karmiloff-Smith et al., 1996): four- and five-year-olds were successful in only about 26% of the cases, whereas the success rate in the former English experiment was 75% for the younger and 96% for the older children. No differences were found between age groups and between open and closed class words. This methodology does reveal the ability to access word boundaries, but probably not because of the ease of the on-line methodology in itself, but rather because literacy introduces new representations of language, even in on-line processing. The outcomes implicate that the ability to mark word boundaries does not seem to be a valid indication of who is ready for reading. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Metalexical awareness nationallicence Linguistic awareness nationallicence Literacy nationallicence Word boundaries nationallicence On-line methodology nationallicence Kurvers Jeanne Babylon, Centre for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, Tilburg, LE, The Netherlands aut Uri Helene Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/4(2006-07-01), 353-367 0090-6905 35:4<353 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9019-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9019-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kurvers Jeanne Babylon, Centre for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, Tilburg, LE, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Uri Helene Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/4(2006-07-01), 353-367 0090-6905 35:4<353 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer