The relationship between phonological skills and word decoding

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-103

  Høien Tengesdal, Ingjerd ^a   Tønnessen, Finn Egil ^b  

^a Logometrica AS   (Norway)

^b University in Stavanger   (Norway)

Author keywords

Phonemic awareness; Rapid automatic naming (RAN); Verbal short term memory (V STM); Word decoding efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651509885     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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