The nature of the phonological processing in French dyslexic children: Evidence for the phonological syllable and linguistic features' role in silent reading and speech discrimination

Annals of Dyslexia

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-150

  Maïonchi Pino, Norbert ^a,b   Magnan, Annie ^a,b   Écalle, Jean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^b Lyon University   (France)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Phonological processing; Reading; Syllable; Syllable frequency; Voicing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349311530     PISSN: 07369387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11881-010-0036-7     Document Type: Article

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