Model for phonemic awareness in readers of Indian script

Written Language and Literacy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-169

  Walia, Aamir ^a   Sproat, Richard ^b   Padakannaya, Prakash ^c   Bhuvaneshwari, B ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Brahmi derived scripts; Grapheme; Minimal edit distance hypothesis; Phonemic awareness; Segmental awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952081612     PISSN: 13876732     EISSN: 15706001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/wll.12.2.02wal     Document Type: Article

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