Rimes are not necessarily favored by prereaders: Evidence from meta- and epilinguistic phonological tasks

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 183-205

  Savage, Robert ^a   Blair, Rebecca ^a   Rvachew, Susan ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Metacognition; Phoneme; Phonological awareness; Reading; Rime

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANADA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; TEACHING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUEBEC; READING; TEACHING;

EID: 33646903652     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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