Developmental dyslexics show deficits in the processing of temporal auditory information in German vowel length discrimination

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-303

  Groth, Katarina ^a   Lachmann, Thomas ^b   Riecker, Axel ^a   Muthmann, Irene ^a   Steinbrink, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Developmental dyslexia; Discrimination; German language; Phonological processing; Reading; Speech; Temporal processing; Vowel height; Vowel length

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952004357     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9213-7     Document Type: Article

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