Development of phonetic memory in disabled and normal readers
U n i v e r s i t ä t P o t s d a mHumanwissenschaftliche Fakultät Most contemporary researchers agree that reading is parasitic on language and that individual differences in reading ability are related to differences in language skills (cf. Frith, 1981;Gleitman & Rozin, 1977; Shankweiler & Liberman, 1976; Vellutino, 1977 Vellutino, , 1979. Support for this view has been provided by several recent studies of memory for linguistic stimuli, reviewed below, wherein normal readers showed significant evidence of phonetic memory codes while disabled readers did not. However, this research has been confined to young readers in the second grade. Little is known about the development of memory codes and their association with reading