The Development of Metalinguistic Awareness of Mora-Phonemes in Japanese Young Children

Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 196-203

  Ito, Tomohiko ^a   Tatsumi, Itaru F ^b  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

development; metalinguistic awareness; mora phonemes; reading; segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542617420     PISSN: 00302813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5112/jjlp.38.196     Document Type: Article

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