Cross-language differences in the use of internal orthographic structure when reading polysyllabic words

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-63

  Taft, Marcus ^a,b   Álvarez, Carlos J ^a,b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross language processing; Lexical processing; Orthographic processing; Polysyllabic words; Reading: Spanish versus English; Syllabic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249151691     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.2.1.04taf     Document Type: Article

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