Washington University in St. Louis

Department of Psychology

Postdoctoral fellow

Tatiana Cury Pollo

I am a postdoctoral fellow under the advising of Rebecca Treiman in the Reading and Language Lab in the Psychology Department at Washington University in St. Louis. My current research is in the acquisition of reading and spelling in English and in Portuguese.

 

Sou uma pós-doutora sob a supervisão de Rebecca Treiman no Laboratório de Leitura e Linguagem no Departamento de Psicologia da Washington University em St. Louis. O tema da minha pesquisa é a aquisição da leitura e da escrita em inglês e em português.

 

Address:

Psychology Department

 

Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Campus Box 1125

 

One Brookings Drive

 

St. Louis MO 63130-4899 USA

Email:

tcpollo@artsci.wustl.edu

Fax:

1-314-935-7588

Office:

Psychology Building, Room 114B.

WWW:

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~tcpollo

Photograph

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Pollo, T. C., Kessler, B., & Treiman, R. (in press). Statistical patterns in children’s early writing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.003

Pollo, T. C., Treiman, R, & Kessler, B. (2008). Preschoolers use partial letter names to select spellings: Evidence from Portuguese. Applied Psycholinguistics, 29, 195–212.

Pollo, T. C., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2008). Three perspectives on spelling development. In E. L. Griorenko & A. Naples (Eds), Single-word reading: cognitive, behavioral and biological perspectives (175−190) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cardoso-Martins, C., Michalick, M. F., & Pollo, T. C. (2006). Como as crianças com síndrome de Down aprendem a ler?: O papel do conhecimento do nome das letras. [How children with Down syndrome learn to read?: The role of letter-name knowledge] Psicologia: Reflexão e Critica, 19, 53–59.

Treiman, R., Kessler, B., & Pollo, T. C. (2006). Learning about the letter name subset of the vocabulary: Evidence from U.S. and Brazilian preschoolers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 211–227. doi:10.1017/S0142716406060255.

Cassar, M., Treiman, R., Moats, L., Pollo, T. C., & Kessler, B. (2005). How do the spellings of children with dyslexia compare with those of nondyslexic children? Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18, 27–49.

Pollo, T. C., Kessler, B., & Treiman, R. (2005). Vowels, syllables, and letter names: Differences between young children’s spelling in English and Portuguese. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92, 161–181.

Cardoso-Martins, C., Michalick, M. F., & Pollo, T. C. (2002). Is sensitivity to rhyme a developmental precursor to sensitivity to phoneme?: Evidence from individuals with Down Syndrome. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15, 439–454.

PRESENTATION AT CONFERENCES

Pollo, T. C., Kessler, B., and Treiman, R. (2009, June). Do children’s prephonological writing patterns predict later spelling performance? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Boston, MA.

Pollo, T. C., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2008, July). The nature of young children’s nonphonological spellings. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Asheville, NC.

Pollo, T. C., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2006, July). How do preschoolers use letter names to select spellings? Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Pollo, T. C., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2005, June). Beginning spellers exploit inexact letter-name matches. Summary of poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Toronto, Canada.

Cardoso-Martins, C, Michalick, M., & Pollo, T. C. (2005, April). The development of orthographic skills: Evidence from individuals with Down Syndrome. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.

Treiman, R., Kessler, B., & Pollo, T. C. (2005, April). U.S. and Brazilian preschoolers' knowledge of letter names: Variability across letters, languages, and children. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.

Pollo, T. C., Kessler, B., & Treiman, R. (2004, June). Influence of writing systems on young children’s spelling in English and Portuguese. Poster presented in the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Amsterdam, Holland.

Michalick, M. F., Pollo, T. C., Pádua, C., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (2002, February). Estratégia de leitura em crianças com síndrome de Down: O papel do conhecimento dos nomes das letras. [Reading strategy in children with Down syndrome: The role of letter-name knowledge] Paper presented at the meeting of the X Semana de Iniciação Científica da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil [Abstract, Editora da UFMG, 1, 279].

Cardoso-Martins, C, Michalick, M. F., & Pollo, T. C. (2001, April). Is sensitivity to rhyme a developmental precursor to sensitivity to phoneme?: Evidence from individuals with Down Syndrome. Poster session presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Michalick, M. F., Pollo, T. C., Mayrink, A., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (2000, September). A consciência fonológica de leitores com síndrome de Down: comparação com leitores normais do mesmo nível de desenvolvimento intelectual. [The phonological awareness of readers with Down syndrome: comparison with normal readers at the same level of intellectual development]. Paper presented at the IX Semana de Iniciação Científica da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. [Abstract: Editora da UFMG, 1, 411].

Pollo, T. C., Michalick, M. F., Mayrink, A., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (2000, July). O conhecimento do nome das letras e a habilidade de ler através do processamento de relações letra-som entre indivíduos com Síndrome de Down [Letter-name knowledge and the ability to read by processing letter-sound relations among individuals with Down syndrome]. Poster presented at the 52ª Reunião Anual da SBPC. Brasília, Brazil. [Abstract, Editora da UnB, 1, 31].

Michalick, M. F., Pollo, T. C., Mayrink, A., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (2000, July). A habilidade de detectar rima e fonema por indivíduos com síndrome de Down [The ability to detect rhyme and phoneme by individuals with Down syndrome]. Poster session presented at the 52ª Reunião Anual da SBPC. Brasília, Brazil. [Abstract, Editora da UnB, 1, 31].

Michalick, M. F., Pollo, T. C, Mayrink, A., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (2000, July). A consciência fonológica de leitores com síndrome de Down: comparação com leitores normais do mesmo nível de desenvolvimento intelectual. [The phonological awareness of readers with Down syndrome: comparison with normal readers at the same level of intellectual development]. Poster session presented at the III Congresso Nacional de Psicologia do Desenvolvimento. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Abstracts, Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense, 1, 209].

Pollo, T. C., Michalick, M. F., Mayrink, A., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (1999, September). O conhecimento do nome das letras e a habilidade de ler através do processamento de relações letra-som entre indivíduos com Síndrome de Down [Letter-name knowledge and the ability to read by processing letter-sound relations among individuals with Down syndrome]. Paper presented at the VIII Semana de Iniciação Científica da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Michalick, M. F., Pollo, T. C, Mayrink, A., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (1999, September). A habilidade de detectar rima e fonema por indivíduos com síndrome de Down [The ability to detect rhyme and phoneme by individuals with Down syndrome] Paper presented at the VIII Semana de Iniciação Científica da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

DATA FILES

Data file: Brazilian Portuguese preschool word list with pronunciations and frequencies.

 

 

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