The links between grammar and spelling: A cognitive hurdle in deep orthographies?

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 915-942

  Juul, Holger ^a   Elbro, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Danish; Grammatical awareness; Morphology; Spelling development

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344240426     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-2109-7     Document Type: Article

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