英文摘要
This two-year study investigated the hypotheses that implicit and explicit phonological representations undergo reorganization from the more syllabic units to the more phonemic units and that the reorganization process is driven by vocabulary growth. Implicit phonological representations refer to those that are automatically handled by the language module. Explicit representations refer to those that are explicit control units in speech manipulation. Fifty-eight 41/2-years-olds were tested on their phonological skills and vocabulary size semiannually for two years. Chinese-speaking children's memory errors were found to contain more of errors transposing subsyllabic units available in the stimulus strings than errors of misordering entire syllables. The proportion of transposition errors increased with age, indicating that the implicit phonological representations became increasingly segmental. The development of explicit representations paralleled that of implicit representations in that no children could cope with the phonological awareness task at the subsyllabic level before they demonstrated any ability at the syllabic level. Though parallel in sequence, the ability to manipulate subsyllabic phonemic structure did not emerge automatically with the development of segmental representations in memory. Further, there was no evidence that vocabulary, either in absolute size or in the amount of growth, was related to the phonological reorganization.
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