Early linguistic abilities and reading development: A review and a hypothesis

Reading and Writing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 453-485

  Elbro, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early reading development; Phonemic awareness; Phonological processing; Phonological representation; Reading difficulties

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642580460     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00577023     Document Type: Review

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