Abstract

ARISTIZABAL CATANO, Paula; MUNETON AYALA, Mercedes  and  TAMAYO PINEDA, Estefanía. A Normative Study of Subjective Familiarity in Children of the Second Grade of School in Medellin (Colombia). Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2018, vol.17, n.3, pp.109-119. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.upsy17-3.enfs.

The aim of this study was to assess the subjective familiarity of 827 words in 187 second-grade children from the city of Medellín. The words were taken from textbooks and adjusted to three psycholinguistic parameters: orthographic consistency, syllabic structure and length. In these tests, the children had to indicate whether they knew each of the words and according to their responses, a numerical value was assigned. A statistical analysis of the medians allowed the selection of 405 words of high subjective familiarity y 422 words of low subjective familiarity. The results show that the proposed psycholinguistic parameters relate to subjective familiarity.

Keywords : Subjective familiarity; reading; spelling; psycolinguistics.

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