Rebecca Treiman is an American

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. She is the Burke and Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Developmental Psychology at

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and head of the Reading and Language Lab there. Treiman's research focuses on spelling and reading, and especially on the linguistic factors that affect these processes.

Biography

Born in

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, to Sam Bard Treiman and Joan Little Treiman, Rebecca Treiman received a B.A. in

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from

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in1976.

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was her adviser for her senior honors thesis at Yale. Treiman received a Ph.D. in

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from the

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(1980).

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was her adviser for a thesis titled "The phonemic analysis ability of preschool children." She was a faculty member at

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and

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before moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 2002. Treiman has written two books on children's spelling, and has published research articles on the processes involved in reading and spelling in children and adults. She has over 200 publications and an

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of over 85. In addition, Treiman has edited or co-edited several books on spelling and reading. Treiman was editor in chief of the ''

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'' from 1997 to 2001. She was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the

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in 2014.

Publications

* Pollatsek, A., & Treiman, R. (Eds.). (2015). Oxford handbook of reading. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. * Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2014). How children learn to write words. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. * Treiman, R. (Ed.). (1997). Spelling. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer. * Treiman, R. (1993). Beginning to spell: A study of first-grade children. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. * Gough, P. B., Ehri, L. C., & Treiman, R. (Eds.) (1992). Reading acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Republished by Routledge in 2018)

References

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