Processing inflected morphology in second language word recognition: Russian-speakers and English-speakers read Hebrew

Reading and Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 321-343

  Wade Woolley, Lesly ^a   Geva, Esther ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cross language study; Hebrew; Morphology; Orthographic depth; Reading in L2; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007434758     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008097300762     Document Type: Article

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