What Is Morphological Awareness? Tapping Lexical Compounding Awareness in Chinese Third Graders

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-73

  Liu, Phil D ^a,b   McBride Chang, Catherine ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese character reading; compounding production; phonological awareness; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249109848     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016933     Document Type: Article

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