The effect of a music program on phonological awareness in preschoolers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Degé, Franziska ^a   Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Music; Music and language; Music program; Music training; Phonological awareness; Phonological skills; Preschoolers; Sound category learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855167947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00124     Document Type: Article

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