On the advantage of 'shallow' orthographies: Number and grain size of the orthographic units or consistency per se?

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 443-444

  Paulesu, Eraldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NOTE; PHONETICS; READING;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33746819839     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00525.x     Document Type: Note

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