A comparative quantitative analysis of Greek orthographic transparency

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 991-1008

  Protopapas, Athanassios ^a   Vlahou, Eleni L ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTROPY; GREECE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; READING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ENTROPY; GREECE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 74949130190     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.4.991     Document Type: Article

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