Impact of spatial ordering of graphemes in alphasyllabic scripts on phonemic awareness in Indic languages

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-116

  Kandhadai, Padmapriya ^a   Sproat, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79952087562     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wsr/wsq009     Document Type: Article

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