Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition: Cross-language and writing system transfer

Cognition

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-88

  Wang, Min ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^b   Liu, Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; English; Orthographic processing; Phonological; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WRITING;

CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 24644493211     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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