Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: Evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 679-695

  Rao, Chaitra ^a   Vaid, Jyotsna ^b   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^c   Chen, Hsin Chin ^d  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Form priming; Graphemic complexity; Hindi; Orthographic depth; Phonological assembly; Urdu

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958771841     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9256-9     Document Type: Article

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