Syllable splitting in literate and preliterate Hebrew speakers: Onsets and rimes or bodies and codas?

This study examined consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) syllable splitting among literate (Grade 2) and preliterate (kindergarten) Hebrew speakers. Consideration of both the architecture of Hebrew orthography and phonology led to the prediction that a body–coda rather than an onset–rime subdivision would predominate. Structured and unstructured tasks confirmed the claim that there exists a subsyllabic, supraphonemic level of phonological awareness...