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Philip H. K. Seymour
Researcher at University of Dundee
Publications - 56
Citations - 4640
Philip H. K. Seymour is an academic researcher from University of Dundee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading (process) & Dyslexia. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 56 publications receiving 4392 citations.
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Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies
TL;DR: It is argued that fundamental linguistic differences in syllabic complexity and orthographic depth are responsible for the development of basic decoding skills in English and that children from a majority of European countries become accurate and fluent in foundation level reading before the end of the first school year.
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Beginning reading without phonology
Philip H. K. Seymour,Leona Elder +1 more
TL;DR: The reading development of the individual members of a class of new entrants to primary school (aged 4 1/2 -5 1 /2 years) was studied over a period of a year as mentioned in this paper.
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Developmental dyslexia: a cognitive experimental analysis of phonological, morphemic, and visual impairments
TL;DR: The results of a cognitive experimental analysis of the reading functions of four developmentally dyslexic subjects are presented in this paper, where data are considered on an individual basis in an attempt to specify the primary source of disturbance in each case, and the manner in which the normal course of reading development has been distorted.
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How important are rhyme and analogy in beginning reading
TL;DR: Assessing the impact of pre-school phonological skills on reading amongst children experiencing their first year of formal instruction by a mixed method found that beginning readers who could decode nonwords were found to have accomplished this by employing their letter-sound knowledge rather than by making analogies based on familiar rime units.