Cross-language transfer of insight into the structure of compound words

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-336

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Anderson, Richard C ^a   Li, Hong ^b   Dong, Qiong ^b   Wu, Xinchun ^b   Zhang, Yan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compound morphology; Cross language transfer; Morphological awareness; Reading proficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950457649     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9205-7     Document Type: Article

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