Learning of letter names and sounds and their contribution to word recognition

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-165

  Levin, Iris ^a   Shatil Carmon, Sivan ^a   Asif Rave, Ornit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Hebrew alphabet; Letter names; Letter sounds; Training letter knowledge; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 32244448746     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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