Refining the psycholinguistic grain size theory: Effects of phonotactics and word formation on the availability of phonemes to preliterate children

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 445-447

  Caravolas, Markéta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; NOTE; PHONETICS; READING;

CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33746857305     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00526.x     Document Type: Note

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