Examining relationships among dialect variation and emergent literacy Skills

Communication Disorders Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-77

  Terry, Nicole Patton ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dialect variation; dialects; emergent literacy; reading

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WRITING;

EID: 84856139782     PISSN: 15257401     EISSN: 15384837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525740110368846     Document Type: Article

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