Longitudinal predictors of reading and spelling across languages varying in orthographic consistency

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 321-346

  Georgiou, George K ^a   Torppa, Minna ^b   Manolitsis, George ^c   Lyytinen, Heikki ^b   Parrila, Rauno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic; Letter knowledge; Orthographic consistency; Phonological awareness; Rapid naming speed; Reading; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856086798     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9271-x     Document Type: Article

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