The Cognitive and Linguistic Foundations of Early Reading Development: A Norwegian Latent Variable Longitudinal Study

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 764-781

  Lervåg, Arne ^a   Bråten, Ivar ^a   Hulme, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

paired associate learning; phoneme awareness; RAN; reading development; word recognition

Indexed keywords

AGE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; APTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NORWAY; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65649098381     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014132     Document Type: Article

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