The effects of familiarity, orthographic neighbourhood density, letter-length and graphemic complexity on children's reading accuracy

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-287

  Laxon, Veronica ^a   Gallagher, Alison ^b   Masterson, Jackie ^c  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; ENGLAND; HUMANS; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036580403     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712602162580     Document Type: Article

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