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Dyslexics (15 boys, 12 girls, 6 to 9 yr.) were not poorer than normal readers (13 boys, 11 girls, 6 to 9 yr.) in segmenting tone sequences but much poorer in segmenting speech.
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Morais et al. (1984) studied this question.
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