Children use vowels to help them spell consonants

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-42

  Hayes, Heather ^a   Treiman, Rebecca ^a   Kessler, Brett ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codas; Context; Graphotactic patterns; Onsets; Spelling development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645751838     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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