The role of sensitivity to rhymes, phonemes and tones in reading english and chinese pseudowords

Reading and Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-26

  Leong, Che Kan ^a,b   Cheng, Pui Wan ^b   Tan, Li Hai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

English and Chinese pseudowords; Lexical tones; Phoneme deletion; Putonghua and Cantonese speaking children; Rhyme detection and deletion; Speech sound repetition

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144377128     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-3357-2     Document Type: Article

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