Relations between dialect variation, grammar, and early spelling skills

Reading and Writing

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 907-931

  Terry, Nicole Patton ^a  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

African American English; Dialects; Grammar; Morphosyntactic Knowledge; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748882363     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9023-0     Document Type: Article

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