Size does not matter, frequency does: Sensitivity to orthographic neighbors in normal and dyslexic readers

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 129-144

  Marinus, Eva ^a   de Jong, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Dyslexia; High frequency neighbor; Lexical access; Orthographic neighborhood size; Reading speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77950865704     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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