The development of reading across languages

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1145, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-12

  Goswami, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Orthography; Phonology; Reading

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; SKILL;

EID: 57449109324     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1416.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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