Adults' knowledge of phoneme-letter relationships is phonology based and flexible

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-114

  Lehtonen, Annukka ^a,b   Treiman, Rebecca ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33947423908     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716407070051     Document Type: Article

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