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[Catherine Snow]

Applied Psycholinguistics is soliciting papers for a special issue to 
be devoted to the topic

Quality of Phonological Representation of Lexical Items
						
We are interested in reviewing papers that present theory and data concerning:

•	the nature of phonological representations of lexical items
•	ways of assessing the quality of phonological representations 
of lexical item
•	the ways in which the quality of phonological representations 
change in first language learners with the acquisition of phonology 
and with expansion of the lexicon
•	the relevance of quality of phonological representation of 
lexical items to normal reading development and to dyslexia
•	the impact of bilingualism and/or second language acquisition 
on the quality of phonological representations.  

Specific questions that individual papers might address include but are not limited to: 

How does one define quality of phonological representations?  How 
does one measure quality of phonological representations in ways that 
distinguish it from orthographic knowledge? How does quality of 
phonological representation relate to phonological awareness?  Is 
quality of phonological representation linked across the two 
languages spoken by a bilingual? Is expansion of vocabulary beyond 
some point predicated on some threshold level of quality of 
phonological representation?  Alternately, is quality of phonological 
representation a product of the expansion of vocabulary beyond a 
certain level?  Is there a relationship between quality of 
phonological representation and success in early or in later reading 
acquisition? And speed of lexical access during reading?  Is quality 
of phonological representations selectively impaired in any subset of 
children with language difficulties or reading problems?  

Papers received in response to this call will be submitted to Applied 
Psycholinguistics' normal peer review process.  Deadline for 
submission of papers: 1 July 2000.  Accepted papers will appear in 
the first issue of 2001, Volume 22.

Address for submission and for further information:
Catherine Snow, Editor
Applied Psycholinguistics
Larsen 3
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Catherine Snow
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Larsen 3
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel:  617 - 495 3563
fax:  617 - 495 5771
New email address: Snowcat at gse.harvard.edu
               or: Catherine_Snow at harvard.edu