The importance of vowel diacritics for reading in Hebrew: What can be learned from readers with prelingual deafness?

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 593-615

  Miller, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

deafness; Hebrew; pointing; reading; STM; vowel diacritics

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444256796     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:READ.0000044299.63726.10     Document Type: Article

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