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1 Introduction Developmental dyslexia is a prevalent, heritable reading deficit that is associated with difficulties in speech processing and language development that can already be detected in infancy and early childhood and are largely understood to stem from a phonological deficit [1]. However, the auditory processing deficits in dyslexia may extend beyond speech processing to broader, underlying auditory abilities that may cause or contribute to the phonological deficit.

Vineta Fellman Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Pediatrics, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden Childrens Hospital, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Contribution: Conceptualization, ​Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Resources, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft Search for more papers by this author

New Results doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.10.522962 Abstract A crucial skill in infant language acquisition is learning of the native language phonemes. This requires the ability to group complex sounds into distinct auditory categories based on their shared features. Problems in phonetic learning have been suggested to underlie language learning difficulties in dyslexia, a developmental reading-skill deficit.