The role of Hebrew letter names in early literacy: The case of multiphonemic acrophonic names

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 193-216

  Levin, Iris ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hebrew alphabet; Letter knowledge; Letter name; Letter position; Partial letter name; Phonemic awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SPEECH;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 35648966482     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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