Reading in two writing systems: Accommodation and assimilation of the brain's reading network

Bilingualism

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-146

  Perfetti, Charles A ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Fiez, Julie ^a   Nelson, Jessica ^a   Bolger, Donald J ^a   Tan, Li Hai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 34447281120     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728907002891     Document Type: Article

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