Children's spelling of base, inflected, and derived words: Links with morphological awareness

Reading and Writing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 737-765

  Kemp, Nenagh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Derived words; Inflected words; Morphological awareness; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748673557     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9001-6     Document Type: Article

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