A preliminary investigation of akshara knowledge in the Malayalam alphasyllabary: Extension of Nag's (2007) study

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-151

  Tiwari, Shivani ^a   Nair, Remya ^a   Krishnan, Gopee ^a  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 81855224749     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wsr/wsr013     Document Type: Article

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