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Bialystok, Ellen. 1991. Letters, sounds, and symbols: Changes in children's understanding in written language. Applied Psycholinguistics 12 (1) : 75–89.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
child | letter | sound | symbol | written language, comprehension of
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0142-7164
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/ 

Annotation

This paper argues that children's symbolic knowledge of the representation of sounds by letters constitutes a precondition to reading.