Learning to represent vowels in written Hebrew: Different factors across development

First Language

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-208

  Ravid, Dorit ^a   Schiff, Rachel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gradeschool; Hebrew; Morphology; Reading; Spelling; Vowels

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144452614     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723704044127     Document Type: Article

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