Parts of this chapter are abridged from my forthcoming book, to be published by Laurence Erlbaum Press. In writing this chapter I was helped by several experts. Among them are Profs. Aaron Demsky, and Terry Fenton. Mr. Murray Rozovsky and my daughter Yonat helped me editing the chapter. I thank them all. Needless to say, the mistakes are mine.
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Shimron, J. (2005). Perceptions and Evidence of Early Literacy in Hebrew. In: Ravid, D.D., Shyldkrot, H.BZ. (eds) Perspectives on Language and Language Development. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7911-7_32
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