Developmental relations between facets of morphological awareness in Chinese: a latent change score modeling study. (2nd March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Koh, Poh Wee; Wagner, Richard K.; Quinn, Jamie M.; Yi, Hui; Li, Miao; Li, Hong
• Is Part Of: Applied psycholinguistics. Volume 43:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 435
• Page End: 462
• Publication Date: 2022-03-02
• Subjects: Chinese morphological awareness -- morpheme and structure awareness -- latent -- change score modeling; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; 401.9
• DOI: 10.1017/S0142716421000606
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-7164

Abstract

Abstract: Chinese morphological awareness is conceptualized as a multidimensional construct but there is a lack of understanding of how its dimensions are related. Latent change score modeling was used to examine the bivariate relationships of two facets of oral morphological awareness, namely morpheme and structure awareness in Chinese children in grades one through three. Two hundred and three children in China completed morpheme (homonym awareness) and structure awareness (lexical compounding) tasks across the three grades ( M = 6.66, SD = .30 at the first time point). Results indicated that growth in structure awareness was predicted in part by previous levels of morpheme awareness, suggesting that morpheme awareness leads the growth of structure awareness. Educational implications are discussed.