Maki will be able to distinguish between the /l/ and /r/ phonemes right now, but as she reaches the age of roughly 6 months, she will start to lose this ability.
A phoneme is a unit of sound used in phonology and linguistics that can differentiate one word from another in a specific language.
Recognition of printed words improves with increased phoneme awareness. We can accurately determine whether a youngster will be an excellent reader or a poor reader by the end of third grade and beyond even before they begin to read.
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