Logographic Kanji versus phonographic Kana in literacy acquisition: How important are visual and phonological skills?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1145, Issue , 2008, Pages 41-55

  Koyama, Maki S ^a   Hansen, Peter C ^b   Stein, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Japanese; Logographic versus phonographic; Low level sensory processing; Phonological awareness; Reading and writing; Visual long term memory

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL MEMORY; WRITING;

EID: 57449115572     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1416.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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