Spelling pronunciations: Transforming irregularity into regularity

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-308

  Landerl, Karin ^a,b   Thaler, Verena ^a,c   Reitsma, Pieter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Remediation; Spelling pronunciations

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049128547     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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