The role of vowels in reading Semitic scripts: Data from Arabic and Hebrew

Reading and Writing

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 39-59

  Abu Rabia, Salim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Context; Different orthographies; Reading Semitic languages; Triliteral quadriliteral root model; Vowels

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943063190     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008147606320     Document Type: Article

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