Saiegh-Haddad Elinor, Taha Haitham
English Linguistics and Literature Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Sakhnin College of Education, Sakhnin, Israel.
Dyslexia. 2017 Nov;23(4):345-371. doi: 10.1002/dys.1572.
The study is a cross-sectional developmental investigation of morphological and phonological awareness in word spelling and reading in Arabic in reading-accuracy disabled (RD) children and in age-matched typically developing (TR) controls in grades 1-4 (N = 160). Morphological awareness tasks targeted the root and word pattern derivational system of Arabic, in both the oral and the written modalities. Phonological awareness employed a variety of orally administered segmentation and deletion tasks. The results demonstrated early deficits in morphological awareness, besides deficits in phonological awareness, in RD children as compared with typically developing controls, as well as in word and pseudoword spelling and reading (voweled and unvoweled). While phonological awareness emerged as the strongest predictor of reading, morphological awareness was also found to predict unique variance in reading, and even more so in spelling, beyond phonological awareness and cognitive skills. The results demonstrate the early emergence of morphological awareness deficits, alongside phonological deficits in Arabic RD, as well as the role of morphological processing in early reading and spelling. These findings reflect the centrality of derivational morphology in the structure of the spoken and the written Arabic word. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
该研究是一项横断面发展性调查，针对1至4年级阅读准确性障碍（RD）儿童及年龄匹配的正常发育（TR）对照儿童（N = 160）的阿拉伯语单词拼写和阅读中的形态意识和语音意识进行研究。形态意识任务针对阿拉伯语的词根和词型派生系统，包括口头和书面形式。语音意识采用了多种口头进行的切分和删除任务。结果表明，与正常发育的对照儿童相比，RD儿童在形态意识方面存在早期缺陷，同时在语音意识、单词和假词拼写及阅读（有元音和无元音）方面也存在缺陷。虽然语音意识是阅读最强的预测指标，但形态意识也被发现可预测阅读中的独特方差，在拼写方面更是如此，超出了语音意识和认知技能的范畴。结果表明，阿拉伯语RD儿童除了存在语音缺陷外，还早期出现形态意识缺陷，以及形态加工在早期阅读和拼写中的作用。这些发现反映了派生形态在阿拉伯语口语和书面语单词结构中的核心地位。版权所有© 2017约翰威立父子有限公司。
