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Peer reviewedMorais, Jose; And Others – Cognition, 1979
Illiterate adults could neither delete nor add a phone at the beginning of a non-word; but these tasks were performed by people who learned to read rudimentarily as adults. Awareness of speech as a sequence of phones is thus not attained spontaneously but is probably provided by learning to read. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries
