Are French dyslexic children sensitive to consonant sonority in segmentation strategies? Preliminary evidence from a letter detection task

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-23

  Maïonchi Pino, Norbert ^b   de Cara, Bruno ^a   Écalle, Jean ^b   Magnan, Annie ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b Lyon University   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; French; Illusory conjunctions; Sonority; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONSONANT SONORITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FRANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; VISION;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FRANCE; HUMANS; PHONETICS; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 80053454489     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.07.045     Document Type: Article

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