What is orthographic knowledge?

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 592-603

  Apel, Kenn ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental graphemic representations; Orthographic knowledge; Orthographic patterns; Orthographic processing; Orthotactics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; WRITING;

EID: 80054004073     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2011/10-0085)     Document Type: Article

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