Onset entropy matters - Letter-to-phoneme mappings in seven languages

Reading and Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-229

  Borgwaldt, Susanne R ^a,d   Hellwig, Frauke M ^b   De Groot, Annette M B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consistency; Cross linguistic Comparisons; Reading; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144443241     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-005-3001-9     Document Type: Article

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