Complexity and lexicality effects on the acquisition of Spanish spelling

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-65

  Defior, Sylvia ^a   Jiménez Fernández, Gracia ^a   Serrano, Francisca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex phoneme grapheme correspondences; Lexicality effect; Orthographic code complexities; Spanish spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849111921     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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