Developmental stability and changes in the impact of root consistency on children's spelling

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1055-1069

  Deacon, S Hélène ^a   Dhooge, Sarah ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Derived; Inflected; Literacy; Morphology; Root consistency; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956912832     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9195-5     Document Type: Article

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