Vowel Categorization Skill and Its Relationship to Early Literacy Skills among First-grade Québec-French Children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 190-221

  Caravolas, Markéta ^a,b   Bruck, Maggie ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Categorization; Phoneme awareness; Phonology; Reading; Spelling; Vowels

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; QUEBEC; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034221360     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1999.2547     Document Type: Article

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