Morphological abilities in Hebrew-speaking gradeschoolers from two socioeconomic backgrounds: An analogy task

First Language

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-402

  Ravid, Dorit ^a   Schiff, Rachel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lexical development; Literacy; Metalanguage; Orthography; Reading; Semitic pattern; Semitic root

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249149462     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723706064828     Document Type: Article

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