Effect of orthographic transparency on letter position encoding: A comparison of Greek and English monoscriptal and biscriptal readers

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 258-281

  Ktori, Maria ^a   Pitchford, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPELLING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 39049162934     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701536797     Document Type: Article

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