Phoneme identification in bilingual children in Singapore – a preregistered investigation using the CROWN game.
Phoneme identification is critically involved in alphabetic reading, and weak skills in phoneme perception are known to correspond to the development of reading skills in children around the age of reading instruction. However, current models of phoneme perception have been established in monolingua...
| Publicado en: | Language Learning & Development Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 310 - 331 |
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