Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Capital Gains: Effects of Word Class and Sentence Position on Capitalization Use Across Age. |
| Authors: |
Hawkey, Emilia (AUTHOR), Palmer, Matthew A. (AUTHOR), Kemp, Nenagh (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Child Development. Nov/Dec2025, Vol. 96 Issue 6, p2233-2246. 14p. |
| Subjects: |
Capitalization (Writing), Syntax (Grammar), Cloze procedure, English orthography & spelling, Cognitive processing of language, Cognitive load |
| Abstract: |
Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021–2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence‐initial words) and no‐cue control words. High school (12–18 years, n = 59) and university students (18–63 years, n = 78) exhibited near‐perfect capitalization. Primary school students (8–12 years) writing single words (n = 99) used proper‐noun cues more than sentence‐initial cues (ds > 0.49), but when writing consecutive words (n = 101), capitalized more accurately with two cues than one (ds > 0.32). Early capitalization appears better with more cues, but task format influences children's use of grammatical context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
