Statistical learning is related to early literacy-related skills

Reading and Writing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 467-490

  Spencer, Mercedes ^a   Kaschak, Michael P ^a   Jones, John L ^a   Lonigan, Christopher J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early literacy; Oral language; Phonological processing; Statistical learning; Structural equation modeling; Vocabulary knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925538325     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: 15730905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-014-9533-0     Document Type: Article

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