Letter name knowledge and the ability to learn to read by processing letter-phoneme relations in words: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children

Reading and Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 409-432

  Cardoso Martins, Cláudia ^a   Resende, Selmara Mamede ^a   Rodrigues, Larissa Assunção ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Letter names; Letter phoneme relations; Phonetic cue reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244377655     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015213514722     Document Type: Article

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