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Hohn, William E.; Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The present study was designed to determine whether alphabet letters facilitate the acquisition of phoneme segmentation skill and to test the assumption that letters make it harder for prereaders to learn segmentation than nondistinctively marked visual aids. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten