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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Child Psychol. 2009 Aug 18;104(4):410–426. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.003

Table 3.

Percentage of Vowels (Standard Deviation in Parentheses) in Children's Spellings in English and Portuguese

English
Portuguese
CV Structure Prephonological Phonological Prephonological Phonological
CVC .38 (.14) .37 (.19) .46 (.18) .42 (.08)
CVCV .37 (.12) .40 (.16) .45 (.21) .50 (.07)
CCV .37 (.14) .37 (.17) .46 (.18) .43 (.10)