Letter names: Effect on letter saying, spelling, and word recognition in Hebrew

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-300

  Levin, Iris ^a   Patel, Sigal ^a   Margalit, Tamar ^a   Barad, Noa ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0036026029     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716402002060     Document Type: Article

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