Yee Jia'en, Yap Ngee Thai, Mahmud Rozi, Saripan M Iqbal
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 6;14:1038630. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1038630. eCollection 2023.
This study investigated the influence of multiliteracy in opaque orthographies on phonological awareness. Using a visual rhyme judgement task in English, we assessed phonological processing in three multilingual and multiliterate populations who were distinguished by the transparency of the orthographies they can read in ( = 135; ages 18-40). The first group consisted of 45 multilinguals literate in English and a transparent Latin orthography like Malay; the second group consisted of 45 multilinguals literate in English and transparent orthographies like Malay and Arabic; and the third group consisted of 45 multilinguals literate in English, transparent orthographies, and Mandarin Chinese, an opaque orthography. Results showed that all groups had poorer performance in the two opaque conditions: rhyming pairs with different orthographic endings and non-rhyming pairs with similar orthographic endings, with the latter posing the greatest difficulty. Subjects whose languages consisted of half or more opaque orthographies performed significantly better than subjects who knew more transparent orthographies than opaque orthographies. The findings are consistent with past studies that used the visual rhyme judgement paradigm and suggest that literacy experience acquired over time relating to orthographic transparency may influence performance on phonological awareness tasks.
本研究调查了不透明正字法中的多元读写能力对语音意识的影响。我们使用英语的视觉押韵判断任务，评估了三个多语言和多元读写人群的语音处理能力，这些人群以他们能够阅读的正字法的透明度来区分（=135人；年龄在18至40岁之间）。第一组由45名精通英语和如马来语这样的透明拉丁正字法的多语言者组成；第二组由45名精通英语以及如马来语和阿拉伯语这样的透明正字法的多语言者组成；第三组由45名精通英语、透明正字法以及中文普通话（一种不透明正字法）的多语言者组成。结果表明，在两种不透明条件下，所有组的表现都较差：具有不同正字法结尾的押韵对和具有相似正字法结尾的非押韵对，后者造成的困难最大。其语言包含一半或更多不透明正字法的受试者比那些了解的透明正字法多于不透明正字法的受试者表现明显更好。这些发现与过去使用视觉押韵判断范式的研究一致，并表明随着时间推移获得的与正字法透明度相关的读写经验可能会影响语音意识任务的表现。
