Levels of phonological representation in skilled reading and in learning to read

Reading and Writing

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 123-151

  Morais, José ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Learning to read; Phoneme awareness; Phonological representations; Skilled reading; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043236492     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1021702307703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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