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phonemic awareness

phonological working memory

phonological awareness

phonological processing

phonological sensitivity

phonological representation

phonological naming

alphabetic principle

The ability to hear and become sensitive to the sounds of language.

The concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in the spoken word.

The distinctness of words stored in long-term memory, and the ability to access word representations in a conscious manner.

The conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.

The most prominent and enduring weakness in people with reading and spelling problems.

The ability to efficiently retrieve words stored in long-term memory using phonological information.

The conscious awareness of all levels of the speech sound system including syllables, initial sounds, and phonemes.

The "online" memory system that remembers speech long enough to extract meaning from it, or that holds onto words during writing.