Typological effects on spelling development: A crosslinguistic study of Hebrew and Dutch

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 621-659

  Gillis, Steven ^a   Ravid, Dorit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING; WRITING;

EID: 33749370525     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007434     Document Type: Article

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