The processing of inflectional morphology: A comparison of children with and without dyslexia

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 567-591

  Egan, Joanne ^a   Pring, Linda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Grammar; Morphology; Phonology; Reading; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444245008     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:READ.0000044433.30864.23     Document Type: Article

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