Rapid naming speed and reading across languages that vary in orthographic consistency

Reading and Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 885-903

  Georgiou, George K ^a   Parrila, Rauno ^a   Liao, Chen Huei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ChengChou Institute of Technology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic; Rapid naming speed; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949124559     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9096-4     Document Type: Article

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