Psychological Development and Education ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (6): 569-576.

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The Categorical Perception Skills in Chinese Children with Phonological Dyslexia

LIU Wen-li1,3, YI Ting-wei2, YANG Yu-fang3   

  1. 1. Department of Social Psychology, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071;
    2. Service Center for Human Resources, Shunyi District, Beijing 101300;
    3. Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101
  • Online:2010-11-15 Published:2010-11-15

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Abstract: With a group of Chinese children with phonological dyslexia,a group of normal children and a group of adults as the participants,the study examined whether phonological dyslexics showed speech perception deficits.The categorical perception tasks were adopted as the speech perception tests,which asked participants to identify continua of synthetic or natural phonetic category.The results found that children with phonological dyslexia showed categorical perception deficits and had less consistency when identifying stimuli within categories,whether the stimuli were synthetic or natural;individual analysis showed that the slopes of identification function for most of phonological dyslexics were relatively low;regression analysis suggested that the effect of speech perception skills on reading ability is mediated by phonological awareness ability.

Key words: developmental dyslexia, phonological awareness deficits, categorical perception, Chinese children

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  • B844.1
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