Language and writing systems are both important in learning to read: A reply to Yamada

Cognition

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-137

  Wang, Min ^a   Koda, Keiko ^b   Perfetti, Charles A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NOTE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WRITING;

EID: 7544246713     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.014     Document Type: Note

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