The acquisition of phoneme awareness in children learning the hiragana syllabary

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 623-633

  Fletcher Flinn, Claire M ^a   Thompson, G Brian ^b   Yamada, Megumi ^c   Naka, Makiko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross orthographic research; Hiragana syllabary; Methodology; Phoneme awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958770634     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9257-8     Document Type: Article

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