What's in a word? Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in three languages

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-462

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Tardif, Twila ^b   Cho, Jeung Ryeul ^c   Shu, Hua ^d   Fletcher, Paul ^e   Stokes, Stephanie F ^f   Wong, Anita ^g   Leung, Kawai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Kyungnam University   (South Korea)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 44949236995     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S014271640808020X     Document Type: Article

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