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Publication details [#31291]

Marshall, John C., G. Cossu and F. Rossini. 1993. When reading is acquired but phonemic awareness is not: A study of literacy in Down's syndrome. Cognition 46 (2) : 129–138.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | L1-acquisition | literacy | phonology1 | reading

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that phonological awareness skills are no essential prerequisites for reading, via an analysis of reading skills of children with Down's syndrome.