Processing of orthographic structure by adults of different reading ability

Language and Speech

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 351-376

  Taft, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lexical processing; Orthographic processing; Reading ability; Syllables; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; READING; SPEECH;

ADULT; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 0035467682     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309010440030301     Document Type: Article

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