The influence of neighborhood density and word frequency on phoneme awareness in 2nd and 4th grades

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-58

  Hogan, Tiffany P ^a   Bowles, Ryan P ^b   Catts, Hugh W ^c   Storkel, Holly L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AWARENESS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHONETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 78650417984     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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