Understanding the nature of the phonological deficit

How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 153-169

  Ramus, Franck ^a   Szenkovits, Gayaneh ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203838006     Document Type: Chapter

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