Effects of consistency and age of acquisition on reading and spelling among developing readers

Reading and Writing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-169

  Weekes, Brendan S ^a   Castles, Anne E ^b   Davies, Robert A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Consistency; Dyslexia; Reading; Regularity; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 32944479945     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-005-2032-6     Document Type: Article

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