Difficulties with consonants in the spelling and segmentation of CCVCC pseudowords: Differences among Dutch first graders

Reading and Writing

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 363-386

  Van Bon, Wim H J ^a   Uit De Haag, Inge J C A F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consonants; Dutch; Poor spellers; School age children; Segmentation; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037862518     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007942911807     Document Type: Article

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