Francisca Serrano

TL;DR: Phonological development was assessed in six alphabetic orthographies at the beginning and end of the first year of reading instruction and preliminary indications were that cross-linguistic variation was associated with speech rhythm more than factors such as syllable complexity.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how Spanish orthographic code complexities influence learning to spell and found that children acquire spelling skills early in terms of phoneme-grapheme correspondence rules, but lexical knowledge develops more slowly.

TL;DR: The strong relationship among different phonological processes (phonological awareness, verbal short-term memory, working memory and rapid lexical access to phonological representations in longterm memory) and reading acquisition is highly agreed within scientific community as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that the development of spelling in Spanish does not qualitatively differ from that of children who learn to spell in opaque writing systems, mainly due to the time it takes to learn, and the rate of acquisition.