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clues available to guide gender assignment are the morpho-phonological cues carried by noun
endings. By the age of four, children have overcome grammatical gender assignment. The goal of
this study was to explore how word endings influence gender categorisation as a function of age
level. Children (aged 4-11) had to classify spoken nonwords whose endins were either typically
masculine, typically feminine or gave no indication of gender. Results allowed to specify the
process by which phonlogical information influenced gender attribution.
1098.114 Subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia, Sina Wu 1 , Hua Shu 1 , Yanru Liu 2 ,
1 2
Beijing Normal University, China; Shunyi district education and study center, China
By more than one hundred years' studies, researchers gain more and more support for the view
that developmental dyslexics do not form a homogenous population. Around a phonological core,
developmental dyslexics show variability in linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. Given to the great
influence of orthography to manifestations of dyslexia, We gave Chinese dyslexics all kinds of
linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. We found a quite different result from alphabetic one. Instead
of phonological core deficit, Morphological deficit seems to be a predominant deficit to Chinese
dyslexia. Around it, Chinese dyslexia may show some variability in other tasks.
1098.115 Literacy and meta-linguistic awareness in Chinese-English bilingual children, Qing Xue,
Bruce Homer, New York University, USA
Literacy and metalinguistic awareness was investigated in children (JK, SK, Grade 1; N=110)
from Chinese-English dual-immersion schools in China and U.S. Child were given Chinese and
English metalinguistic-awareness and reading tests. Results indicated country by age-group effects
for English, F(2, 105)=6.5, p