Morphological and orthographic effects on hemispheric processing of nonwords: A cross-linguistic comparison

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 691-705

  Eviatar, Zohar ^a   Ibrahim, Raphiq ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross Language; Hemispheric Specialization; Morphology; Orthography; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 12744254717     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-2659-8     Document Type: Article

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